"HEMI-Powered" wrote in message
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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

See, your argument falls flat the second you start denigrating the
opposition. Fact is, OE is used by more people than Yenc.

that refuse
to either get a real news reader or the plug-in that will allow OE
to decode yEnc.

Why change newsreaders when the one provided for free is perfectly
servicable? Yes I tried some plug-ins but, like most, they weren't effective
and made the default product unreliable.

It isn't evil, it isn't just for porn, and it isn't
a dud.

Fact is, it's not anywhere near a widely accepted standard. At least, not
here where it counts.

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.

I'm not saying it's no good, just that it's not better and causes more
problems than it solves.