From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/45420 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: yEnc support in Gnus? Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 14:37:15 -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: References: <02Jun27.141620edt.119069@gateway.intersystems.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1025203105 12182 127.0.0.1 (27 Jun 2002 18:38:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 18:38:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "(ding)" 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 17Ne9w-0003AN-00 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 20:38:24 +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 17Ne9c-0004aX-00; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 13:38:04 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 27 Jun 2002 13:38:25 -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 NAA27898 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 13:38:14 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 20886 invoked by alias); 27 Jun 2002 18:37:47 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 20881 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2002 18:37:47 -0000 Original-Received: from liilmtlsfe02.mailtask.com (208.203.59.43) by gnus.org with SMTP; 27 Jun 2002 18:37:47 -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 13:37:18 -0500 Original-To: Stainless Steel Rat 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: Stainless Steel Rat , "(ding)" In-Reply-To: <02Jun27.141620edt.119069@gateway.intersystems.com> (Stainless Steel Rat's message of "Thu, 27 Jun 2002 14:24:42 -0400") Original-Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Jun 2002 18:37:19.0224 (UTC) FILETIME=[AB000780:01C21E09] Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45420 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45420 On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, ratinox@peorth.gweep.net wrote: > * Simon Josefsson on Thu, 27 Jun 2002 >| 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. > > As it currently stands, yEnc's b0rken implementation leaves Gnus > with only one sane way of implementing encoding: hijacking (or > duplicating) uudecode's functionality and dumping stuff through an > external yDec processor. And even that might not work right. > yEnc's total disregard of defacto and published standards is a right > pain in the behind. Good to know, thanks. I had not seen discussion of yEnc on this list, that's why I brought it up. I'll use the external decoder if I have to. Thanks Ted