Albert Zwikstra said:
I would like to know what the helper application is so that I can
re-install it. Obviously IE is not downloading it automatically.
Actually the problem, so far reported, is that the helper application
already downloaded and installed is causing the error. Use BHO Demon or
Spybot's BHO utility to see which BHOs (browser helper objects) you have
installed for IE. BHO Demon will let you disable them without having to
uninstall them to see which one(s) causes the problem.
The helper application has nothing to do with yEnc.
I'm not sure how a BHO for IE has to do with you using Xnews. Or is
this error separate of Xnews and simply when you are browsing whatever
sites have yEnc encoded files for download? Microsoft doesn't support
anything yEnc so you must've added a BHO, the yEnc proxy, or something
related to yEnc that is interferring with your file downloads.
I am using Xnews as my news reader. Used a screen capture program to
capture the error message as a jpg file and posted the jpg file using
yEnc encoding with Xnews. After all - a picture is supposed to be
worth a
thousand words.
Consider it a fluke that YOUR news server actually lets you included
attachments to your posts submitted to a NON-binary newsgroup. In the
past, when I have submitted a post with an attachment to a non-binary
newsgroup, the NNTP server accepted my post but vaporized it (i.e., it
never showed up). In your case, your post was still accepted as it got
propagated to other NNTP server but your attachment got stripped. So I
see no attachments to your posts. You'll need to post to a binary group
(even alt.test should work) with your attached file and provide a
link to that post here so we can see what you attached.
Someone using Google Groups or another webnews-for-dummies interface to
Usenet won't see your attachment(s), either. Those access methods
deliberately strip off attachments.
