From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Subject: Re: yEnc support in Gnus?
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 20:02:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <iluptycha6i.fsf@extundo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3k7ok8ytn.fsf@onyx.nimbus.northernlight.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Thu, 27 Jun 2002 12:35:00 -0400")
Ted Zlatanov <teodor.zlatanov@divine.com> writes:
> Has anyone heard of yEnc?
>
> http://www.yenc.org/yenc/index.htm
>
> Seems to be supported by Forte and a few other news readers.
> Basically a straight binary transliteration, with a few escaped
> characters. It has a very low overhead compared to BASE64 and such,
> and assumes that news servers can handle most binary characters.
When someone writes a MIME CTE definition of the encoding, I'll offer
a patch for it. I guess decoding support for the current format could
be added to Gnus if someone sends a patch, but supporting encoding is
a bad idea IMHO.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-27 18:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-27 16:35 Ted Zlatanov
2002-06-27 16:48 ` Matthias Andree
2002-06-28 8:58 ` Per Abrahamsen
2002-06-30 10:16 ` Matthias Andree
2002-06-30 17:49 ` Per Abrahamsen
2002-07-01 16:11 ` Ted Zlatanov
2002-07-01 21:08 ` Florian Weimer
2002-07-01 19:34 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-07-02 1:47 ` Russ Allbery
2002-07-02 10:51 ` Steinar Bang
2002-07-03 1:25 ` Russ Allbery
2002-07-02 11:47 ` Matthias Andree
2002-07-02 12:52 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-07-02 15:37 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-07-03 23:14 ` Matthias Andree
2002-07-04 0:44 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-07-04 7:49 ` Steinar Bang
2002-07-05 13:53 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-07-04 14:14 ` Matthias Andree
2002-07-04 15:50 ` Per Abrahamsen
2002-07-05 14:03 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-07-11 8:56 ` Gerd Flaig
2002-07-01 21:07 ` Florian Weimer
2002-06-27 18:02 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2002-06-27 18:24 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-06-27 18:37 ` Ted Zlatanov
2002-06-30 10:19 ` Matthias Andree
2002-08-07 2:03 ` Jesper Harder
2002-08-07 8:22 ` Per Abrahamsen
2002-08-07 10:14 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-08-08 3:02 ` Jesper Harder
2002-08-15 10:18 ` Matthias Andree
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