From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/45416 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: yEnc support in Gnus? Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 12:35:00 -0400 Organization: =?koi8-r?q?=F4=C5=CF=C4=CF=D2=20=FA=CC=C1=D4=C1=CE=CF=D7?= @ Cienfuegos Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1025195784 25109 127.0.0.1 (27 Jun 2002 16:36:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 16:36:24 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17NcFs-0006Ws-00 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 18:36:24 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 17NcFR-00040e-00; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:35:57 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:36:18 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA27667 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:36:08 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 16513 invoked by alias); 27 Jun 2002 16:35:38 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 16508 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2002 16:35:38 -0000 Original-Received: from liilmtlsfe02.mailtask.com (208.203.59.43) by gnus.org with SMTP; 27 Jun 2002 16:35:38 -0000 Original-Received: from onyx.nimbus.northernlight.com ([10.128.22.65]) by LIILMTLSFE02.mailtask.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.4905); Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:35:02 -0500 Original-To: ding X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Followup-To: ding Original-Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Jun 2002 16:35:02.0849 (UTC) FILETIME=[962E0B10:01C21DF8] Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45416 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45416 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. yEnc has some rudimentary checksums as well. Ted