The Raven added these comments in the current discussion du jour
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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's right, I denigrate the stupid and the ignorant that insist
on using Outhouse Depressed and thus blindly hate yEnc just
because you can't read it. As to OE being more popular than yEnc,
you are dead wrong. There are literally thousands of NGs where
most or all binary posts are done with yEnc while the number of
OE bigots is far less than the content on the NGs. You are the
loser for refusing to recognize the obvious.
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.

Xnews is also free, it supports yEnc and it can decode multi-part
binaries in-line. Also, Xnews is up to 5 times faster displaying
a JPEG. Don't believe it, time it yourself. You need to get a
life beyond Outhouse Depressed. Your blind hatred and ignorance
is depriving you of millions of pictures posted to thousands of
NGs which you can't see because you're wed at the hip to Bill the
Gates crap software.

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.

Fact is, you're dead wrong. Take a look around Usenet to places
that are very active with JPEGs, movies, and MP3s and you will
see literally thousands of NGs where yEnc is the primary encoding
scheme. As for here, the collective group has decided to
intentionally stay with an obsolete encoding scheme only to
pacify the ignorant OE users.

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.

yEnc causes no problems whatsoever except that Outhouse Depressed
dumb users can't see it. yEnc reduces the as-posted size of a
binary attachment up to 39% compared to Uuencode. If you're not
too stupid to Google, look for the author's description of the
standard and also Jeremy Nixon's essay. There're minor technical
problems with yEnc but zero problem in practice.

Get a life beyond Microcrap.

--
HP, aka Jerry

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