Interviewed by CNN on 21/2/2010 15:47, Rick Merrill told the world: > Only advantage of yenc is that it can break up a posting into several > parts and the user can put them together again.
Actually, no, it does that in a very brain-damaged way, by relying on the SUBJECT line. There are better ways of doing that. And it also identifies the data block in a way that's only a slight improvement on the way UUENCODE uses, while MIME has solved that problem ages ago. Because of this, there's a problem with yEnc sometimes being detected as binary and being re-encoded as Base64, which not only negates the yEnc size advantage but may end up breaking the attachments. There's a proposal to use yEnc encoding within a MIME framework. That could be nice, since the real advantage of yEnc is that it uses 8-bit encoding, instead of the 6-bit encoding used by Base64. Unfortunately, current Usenet binary groups seem stuck into the "it's good enough" mindset and nobody is trying to finish the proposal. -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... BOFH excuse #298: Not enough interrupts *Added by TagZilla 0.066.2 running on Seamonkey 2.0.3 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
