There is a new binary encoding format called yEnc. Its taken over a number of newsgroups. It was developed in Germany and is public domain. It is estimated to save bandwidth over UUE / base 64 encoding by as much as 30%. Info is available at www.yenc32.com. Several newsgroup services now offer background yEnc decoding. That is, as long as you are logged in to their newsgroup server, all binary attachments encoded in yEnc are automatically decoded. This saves users the necessity of having a special newsgroup reader (such as XNews or Gravity) that does this decoding. Therefore, with a newsgroup reader that does not have yEnc decoding capability, the newsgroup server already does this and the decoding is transparent to the user who would not ordinarily have this capability. The reason it might be worthwhile to have background yEnc decoding is because from what I can tell there are a large number of users that do not have readers capable of this kind of decoding. We your server to offer the service, it would attract additional users at this time. Within a few months or so, many users will switch over to readers that have this decoding, but this will cost them money. Right now from what I can tell, users are looking for background yEnc decoding instead of buying a reader that does it, since they are mostly already paying for newsgroup services. If their newsgroup service does not do yEnc decoding, they will switch to one that does instead of buying a reader that does. On Mon, 6 May 2002, Peter Tonoli wrote: > On Fri, 3 May 2002 ray@24hoursecurity.org wrote: > > > > > Does nntpcached support backgroup yEnc decoding? > > If so, could you please point me towards some links to information > > concerning the subject, as I cannot find anything related in the > > documentation or on the web site. > > What do you mean? > _______________________________________________ NNTPCache-users mailing list NNTPCache-users@nntpcache.org http://www.nntpcache.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nntpcache-users
