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b 52 stratofort pdf & pars - "B-52_Stratofortress.pdf" yEnc[90388K]
hielan' laddie wrote:
On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 13:59:52 -0400, Mike wrote (in article ): WHY THE H&^% do you encode stuff???????? This is USENET. All posts are plain text. Any binary files are encoded in some way, using plain text as the basis for the encoding. Common encoding formats include UUencode, MIME, and YENC. Your problem is that you are using MSOE or MS Mail (same thing), which does not know how to handle certain encoding formats, notably YENC, because it is a deliberately crippled newsreader. I decline to support deliberately crippled newsreaders. There are free or cheap 3rd-party decoders which will allow MSOE to access some files it would otherwise not be able to. There are free or cheap newsreaders which are not crippled. You may choose one out of: 1 getting a free or cheap 3rd-party decoder 2 getting a free or cheap real newsreader 3 not downloading files which MSOE can't handle; YENC files, for example, will always have 'yEnc' in the header so you can know what they are beforehand. 4 bitch and moan and provide amusement to those who have real newsreaders. The choice is yours. I use YENC for several reasons, starting with the demonstrable fact that it is more efficient; a YENC format post might be as much as 20% smaller than a UUencoded post. I see no reason to take more time during the upload than I have to. If this is a problem for you, it is easily solved if you pick one of the first three options. I don't care which one you pick... unless you pick (4), 'cause if you pick (4) I get to laugh at you. Being able to laugh at those who insist on using MSOE on USENET is one of the other reasons why I use YENC. Any more questions? And, BTW... don't top-post. And trim your replies, there's a good lad. Thank God they are required to have YENC in the file name. Saves me a lot of time not having to look at those files |
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b 52 stratofort pdf & pars - "B-52_Stratofortress.pdf" yEnc [90388K]
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:05:00 -0400, Lear-1 wrote
(in article ): hielan' laddie wrote: On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 13:59:52 -0400, Mike wrote (in article ): WHY THE H&^% do you encode stuff???????? This is USENET. All posts are plain text. Any binary files are encoded in some way, using plain text as the basis for the encoding. Common encoding formats include UUencode, MIME, and YENC. Your problem is that you are using MSOE or MS Mail (same thing), which does not know how to handle certain encoding formats, notably YENC, because it is a deliberately crippled newsreader. I decline to support deliberately crippled newsreaders. There are free or cheap 3rd-party decoders which will allow MSOE to access some files it would otherwise not be able to. There are free or cheap newsreaders which are not crippled. You may choose one out of: 1 getting a free or cheap 3rd-party decoder 2 getting a free or cheap real newsreader 3 not downloading files which MSOE can't handle; YENC files, for example, will always have 'yEnc' in the header so you can know what they are beforehand. 4 bitch and moan and provide amusement to those who have real newsreaders. The choice is yours. I use YENC for several reasons, starting with the demonstrable fact that it is more efficient; a YENC format post might be as much as 20% smaller than a UUencoded post. I see no reason to take more time during the upload than I have to. If this is a problem for you, it is easily solved if you pick one of the first three options. I don't care which one you pick... unless you pick (4), 'cause if you pick (4) I get to laugh at you. Being able to laugh at those who insist on using MSOE on USENET is one of the other reasons why I use YENC. Any more questions? And, BTW... don't top-post. And trim your replies, there's a good lad. Thank God they are required to have YENC in the file name. Saves me a lot of time not having to look at those files Not required. I could remove it if I so desired. It's merely added to the subjectline by default... and can be removed just as easily. But, hey, if you don't want it, don't download it. |
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