Fw: RE: [Pan-users] Interesting stuff about yEnc

[Toby Inkster]

On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 18:06:22 +0200
Gabi Davar <address@hidden> wrote:

GD> But what really bugs me is his thing about BW saving begin an GD> Illusion. 
I guess being able to download three large binaries in a day GD> on a 500MB 
account instead of one is a just my imagination :-)

That's more a "quota" advantage than a "bandwidth" advantage.

For the average user (on a dial-up modem and a free news server, provided by 
their ISP), yEnc doesn't offer any better downloads than UUEncode. This is 
because the modem does compression on all data being transmitted and UUEncoded 
stuff compresses better than yEnc.

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