Outlook Express and "yEnc" files - help!

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Greetings!

I am new to using Outlook Express in WinXP. In the newsgroups I can
view image files that are not "yEnc" but cannot view the ones that are
"yEnc".

Could someone please tell me how to configure Outlook Express v6 to
view such files?

Thanks in advance,
SC


"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
 
"(e-mail address removed)" said in
Greetings!

I am new to using Outlook Express in WinXP. In the newsgroups I can
view image files that are not "yEnc" but cannot view the ones that are
"yEnc".

Could someone please tell me how to configure Outlook Express v6 to
view such files?

Thanks in advance,
SC


"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
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yEnc is some guy's ripoff of another guys attempt to create a different
encoding scheme. The originator found serious flaws with his scheme,
trashed it, but this other joker decided he wanted his name on something
and kept it alive and modified it. yEnc is NOT an RFC-compliant
encoding scheme so Microsoft won't be supporting it. It's been too long
since I bothered looking at yEnc but my recollection is that it is some
bastardization of MIME encoding. Since MIME provides for encoding,
including security, there's no need to support a non-standard encoding
scheme, especially for e-mail.

There are some news clients that support yEnc simply because it is
pervasive (i.e., it has become a de facto standard), mostly in the porn
newsgroups. Yes, yEnc can be used for other than porn images but that's
not where it is prevalently employed. For porn, or any support of yEnc,
you'll need to find some other client that support it.
 
"nunya" said in news:unJ%23Yh5KEHA.3332@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl:
got issues, vanguard? :-)
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Don't like the truth, nunya? yEnc was written by a guy who decided it
sucked. His code got ripped off by another guy proffering it as his
work. It is non-standard encoding and there are no RFC documents or
drafts for it to become a standard. So Microsoft has no plans to
support it. I'm sure there have been lots of encoding schemes that the
author (or plagarizer) thought were cool but never got standardized and
probably vaporized. DivX had a ways to dig itself out and away from its
seedy start but at least it made an effort. There is mention at
www.yenc.org of "The efficient and CRC protected binary encoding for
Usenet messages - public domain - now standard" but provides no link to
an RFC to prove that standardization. Apparently Jürgen Helbing's
"standardization" is whatever he decides to write up or accept from
someone else but he never has submitted it to IETF to become an RFC
draft and then work to get it ratified. He doesn't want to do the work.
He just doesn't want to bother making it a real standard. Things
might've changed since I last bothered to look at yEnc, but since I
still don't see it as an RFC standard than there's no point to waste
anymore time on it. There are already other standard encoding schemes
available.

"Why yEnc is Bad for the Usenet", by Jeremy Nixon
http://www.exit109.com/~jeremy/news/yenc.html
(apparently the guy that started yEnc and then trashed it as a defective
method of encoding
attachments)

The question was how to configure Outlook Express to view yEnc
attachments (which is probably porn). Can't. yEnc isn't a standardized
encoding format despite Jurgen's "personal" specification. I've read
about some products that had yEnc support and then dropped it because
they were tired of supporting multiple versions of his specification.
If you want support for yEnc, you'll have to use something OTHER than a
Microsoft product. Go look at http://www.yenc.org/tools.htm for a list
of products that support yEnc. I believe Forte Agent used to and might
still provide yEnc support. Otherwise, you have to download the file(s)
and use a yEnc decoder to [merge and] view them, but that interferes
with the "one-handed" viewing mode. ;)
 
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