In <news:[email protected]>, Rick Merrill <[email protected]> wrote:
> MCBastos wrote: > > Interviewed by CNN on 20/2/2010 15:49, Juiceman told the world: > >> Im wondering why Seamonky has never had a yEnc decoder built into > >> the program? Also why people post yEnc pictures? Does yEnc encoded > >> pictures save that much space or bandwidth? > > > > Well, the Mozilla project is all for following (and fostering) > > standards. The problem is that yEnc is not a recognized standard -- > > and besides, it has serious design flaws. And you should think > > twice about implementing/endorsing a spec that *its own author* > > criticizes... > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YEnc > > http://www.faerber.muc.de/temp/20020304-yenc-harmful.html > > Only advantage of yenc is that it can break up a posting into several > parts and the user can put them together again. No, that can be done with the MIME encodings as well. The advantage of yEncoding is the size/bandwidth saved. -- »Q« /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ / against html e-mail X <http://www.asciiribbon.org/> / \ _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
