Why such aggro from usually calm and reasoned individuals - read, ignore or
killfile, Lets just enjoy the most excellent photos posted here.


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And for those care (probably none) here is my take on the discussion.

Given the retention levels of the group ( I can easily get posts made back
in March), given the relative inexpense of disk space (size available on
newsgroup servers), given the numbers of people using broadband access to
the internet and given that ALL newsreaders can view UU encoding why is Yenc
gods gift to posting when the odd 100KB saving is peanuts in the scheme of
things? Surely the posting of files over 1500KB or multipart files is more
of a concern - thankfully we only rarely get these and usually by accident.

While I can accept that those on dialup need small files to reduce download
time I think the saving made by Yenc is hardly worth the argument these
days. I think Yenc followers are more motivated by an almost phobic
fear/hatred of anything Microsoft which to a very very small degree I can
understand.

Personally I can view Yenc seamlessly in OE because I wanted that ability,
however having tried many alternative viewers I have yet to find one that
works as simply/easily as OE and have not found one that works as I want it
to. Indeed some I tried are so unnecessarily complex as to be virtually
unusable and one or two have almost screwed my system.

Given that Yenc is now getting a bit long in the tooth and has still not
achieved universal usage, I feel we should all be using UU as the system
viewable by the greatest majority whilst awaiting the new WMP format or its
successor which will in all probability make Yenc totally obsolete within a
very short time scale.

--
Andrew

"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible."
(Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.)

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