Re: [Pan-users] Yenc in MIME Support

[Rob]

On Monday 10 February 2003 07:16, address@hidden wrote:
> > Could you please add support for yEnc in MIME as described here? This
> > would hopefully begin to fix some of the massive problems yEnc is causing
> > everywhere.
> I'm all for expanded features but what "massive problems" are you talking
> about except whining that {Outlook Express,My ancient reader} can't decode
> yEnc posts?

yeah, I was a pretty vocal detractor of yenc when it first appeared because it 
seemed like yet another "l33t format of the month", but I'm totally floored 
by how quickly it became the de facto standard in large binary groups.  
People howled when MIME started becoming prevalent (because newsreaders like 
Agent took months or years to add support for it) and people are howling now.  
No biggie.

I think that newsreaders unilaterally changing the MIME spec will cause more 
actual trouble and not relieve all the "WHY CANT I DWONLOAD UR P0ST" crap 
since any newsreader that won't support yenc sure won't support yenc 
encapsulated in MIME.

That, and I don't think too many people are using PAN to post binaries ;)

Rob