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Usenet Encoding: yEnc

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the all-your-base64-are-belong-to-us dept.

Motor writes "Anyone remotely interested in usenet binary newsgroups must have noticed the spread of yEnc. yEnc is an encoding scheme for usenet binaries which avoids the enormous (30-40%) bloat associated with the schemes currently in use - which all have to produce 7-bit data to stop ancient newsservers from choking. A good thing, surely? Well, not according to some people. The guy has some good points about yEnc and standards, but I can't help thinking that "standards" people have endlessly discussed better encoding schemes, and nothing has come out of it. yEnc may not be perfect, but it works and it's here - hence the rapid adoption. What do you think?"

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  1. On a related note... by dimator · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I haven't been able to connect to my damn ISP's news server for over a week now. They just ignore my complaints. I can't ping news.gte.net from anywhere that I've tried.

    I'm dying here, a man can only live off the same porno for so long...

    --
    python -c "x='python -c %sx=%s; print x%%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))%s'; print x%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))"
    1. Re:On a related note... by dimator · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      You post something they dont like or that someone complained about?

      Nope, just downloaded pr0n... not that much either, and not everyday. I get similar traceroutes from a couple shells I have as well, so I don't think they're blocking me specifically.

      --
      python -c "x='python -c %sx=%s; print x%%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))%s'; print x%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))"