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Re: Fw: RE: [Pan-users] Interesting stuff about yEnc
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Chris Petersen |
Subject: |
Re: Fw: RE: [Pan-users] Interesting stuff about yEnc |
Date: |
Mon, 25 Mar 2002 10:51:16 -0800 (PST) |
This has all gotten a bit off-topif for this list (as has been said
before, it's a moot point. yEnc is in Pan, it works, and that's all that
really matters - if something better comes along than the wonderful coders
will just add it in, too).
> 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.
I think the big thing going on here is that the people benefiting from
yEnc aren't the average users on dial-up modems. The most popular groups
for yEnc stuff seem to be mp3 and vcd groups (ok, so those are the only
"big binary" groups I really spend a lot of time browsing), both of which
aren't really feasible for dialup users due to the rather large nature of
their content (downloading a 3-disk vcd over a modem would take WAY longer
than any server will keep the articles around for). most of the posters
in small-binary groups (image groups, etc) still seem to be choosing
uuencode.
Thus (and please say this finishes the off-topic argument about why yEnc
isn't better than uuencode speed-wise - we all know it's no better for
dialup people), yEnc has its niche, and it fills it well (or well-enough,
anyway)... Pan supports it now (for the most part), and honestly, that's
all I care about.
just my $.03
-Chris
- Re: [Pan-users] Interesting stuff about yEnc, (continued)
- Re: [Pan-users] Interesting stuff about yEnc, John J . LeMay Jr ., 2002/03/25
- Re: [Pan-users] Interesting stuff about yEnc, Charles Kerr, 2002/03/25
- [Pan-users] Mandrake 8.2 and yEnc, Michael, 2002/03/25
- Re: [Pan-users] Mandrake 8.2 and yEnc, Charles Kerr, 2002/03/25
- Re: [Pan-users] Mandrake 8.2 and yEnc, Michael, 2002/03/25
- Re: [Pan-users] Mandrake 8.2 and yEnc, John J . LeMay Jr ., 2002/03/26
- [Pan-users] Improving Pan performance over VNC via dialup/adsl, Steven Ellis, 2002/03/26
RE: [Pan-users] Interesting stuff about yEnc, Gabi Davar, 2002/03/25
Fw: RE: [Pan-users] Interesting stuff about yEnc, Toby Inkster, 2002/03/25
- Re: Fw: RE: [Pan-users] Interesting stuff about yEnc,
Chris Petersen <=
RE: RE: [Pan-users] Interesting stuff about yEnc, Gabi Davar, 2002/03/25