The Raven added these comments in the current discussion du jour
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I appreciate both sides of the argument but, given Yenc has
been out for years and it still hasn't gained any significant
market space it's a proven dud.

As for getting additional plugins or other news readers, why
bother? The ones most of us use have been serving us perfectly
well for over a decade, cost nothing, and the newer readers
don't seem to offer any significant improvements.

There are a great number of NGs where all you see is yEnc. In
places where there's wild disagreement and blind hatred, it is
always, always coming from the OUthouse Depressed crowd that refuse
to either get a real news reader or the plug-in that will allow OE
to decode yEnc. It isn't evil, it isn't just for porn, and it isn't
a dud. If the Luddites of the world want to stick their heads in
the sand and pretend that yEnc is no good, that's there choice,
they'll just miss out on a tremendous amount of good content in
thousands of NGs.

--
HP, aka Jerry

Don't be a fop or a blooter, make only pithy comments on Usenet