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Subject: Re: What **is** yEnc ?? Now that I've tried it (OT)
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Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 00:26:14 -0500
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WILL DO. That's why I asked.
On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 20:59:53 -0500, Animated GIF Man
<AGMLiteForU@aol.com> wrote:
>On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 17:52:59 -0500, Poster <poster@mutemail.com> wrote in
>alt.multimedia.tk :
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>> What are the advatages
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>> and/or disadvantages
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>> of posting to Usenet in the yEnc format?
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>yEnc advantages are it takes somewhat less
>disk space to store files encoded in yEnc [and
>consequently less time to upload/download,
>BUT if your goal is to share with AOL-ers, there
>are far too many sections for them to hope to
>download each, naming them all correctly and
>manually re-assembling them using a yDecoder
>[will take them longer than downloading standard
>UUE encoding which decodes automatically].
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>the time savings are negligible for broadband
>users as they already get everything so fast.
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>I see you are trying to be helpful by trying it, but
>yEnc is far too difficult + cumbersome for AOL
>members just yet. I'd suggest using regular
>coding scheme until AOL incorporates it into
>their news reader interface [if ever].
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