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On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 04:28:11 -0400, Dave D wrote
(in article ): "hielan' laddie" wrote in message ... On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:50:40 -0400, Mitchell Holman wrote (in article ): "John Crawford" wrote in : Yenc is suppose to save band width. No on my computer, all it does is flood it with useless unreadable garbage. Yenc might make sense when posting songs or video clips but when it comes to simple images I have never seen a reason to depart from the jpeg format that everyone can read and is comfortable with. One more time: Every single binary posted on USENET is encoded using some method or another. If you post a .JPG, you are posting it using some encoding system, MIME, or UUNET, or yENC or something else. You cannot just post a .JPG, USENET is a text-only medium and binaries must be encoded so that they look like text or they will not show up on USENET. You choose to encode using UUNET or MIME, depending on the default setting of your NNTP client; almost all NNTP clients decode MIME and UUNET and yENC. Some just decode MIME or UUNET. Some still don't decode any of those formats at all and must rely on 'helper apps' to decode binaries. (And to encode them for upload) When I first started reading USENET, my NNTP client at the time did not decode binaries of any format; I had to use a helper app. The two most prominent NNTP clients which do not decode yENC are MSOE and Thunderbird. MSOE users, in particular, insist that others not use yENC because their client won't read it. I tell 'em to kiss my ass. If you want to see _all_ the pics, use a client which will decode them, or get a helper app which will do it for you. If you insist on doing neither, that is _your choice_. You don't get to see certain pix. Like it or lump it. I always figgured that those who insist on using yENC for pics were kinda like those who put spoilers on the rear of their cars that won't go fast enough to be of any value. Simply put for show, looks, and status.... DaveD I have limited bandwidth. I see no reason to waste it unnecessarily catering to luddites. yENC cuts the overhead by a considerable amount. In addition, my outgoing connection is slow. Not using yENC means that I would take longer to post. I would prefer to cut down on the time, not to increase it. Faster connections are not available at my location, even if I were willing to pay more for the connivence of luddites, which I'm not. Nor am I willing to move to a location where I can get faster connections just so luddites can avoid using an efficient method. I configure my system to suit my needs. If my needs do not correspond to your needs, then by all means apply your killfile. Do it now. Don't wait, as I am _not_ going to change. |
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