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Re: [Pan-users] yEnc.msg files and formats


From: John Wendel
Subject: Re: [Pan-users] yEnc.msg files and formats
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2021 16:30:05 -0800
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Hi all

I certainly don't think that yEnc is a piracy conspiracy.

Most of the pirate files I've encountered are encrypted binary files that require a password to decrypt. Since I don't have the password, I can't tell the actual file format. They have long filenames of random letters, but are in multiple parts like "rar" files.

And since I cannot get a list of the files in the britishrailway group, because my version of PAN crashes when asked to download the groups headers, I just guessed that the files are "strangely" formatted.

I'd like to help with this mystery, but am unable to even start, so just ignore me <smile>.

I LOVE PAN!

John


On 3/12/21 4:16 PM, RickBrown wrote:
pan runs on my Fedora 32 spin. Interesting that yEnc may be thought of somekinda piracy conspiracy. I'll change my question to the list "Have you ever used pan to download and display yEnc encoded messages?"


On 03/12/21 09:04, John Wendel wrote:
Very strange, when I try to download headers in this group, PAN crashes.

I would guess that this group is being used (like many others) to distribute encrypted files of copyrighted material.

Running latest PAN on Linux Mint.

Regards - John

On 3/11/21 7:23 PM, Sarah Taylor wrote:
My ISP lists that newsgroup but when I try to use it no contents are available.  Have you downloaded an yenc decoder yet?  I downloaded a windows one called yEnc32. I haven't found a newsgroup that had any yenc files in it, at least using Pan newsreader.  I kinda recall from years ago I would download all the messages associated with a picture file into a folder and then point my yenc decoder to the contents of that folder.

If the contents of all the associated messages are not too big, can you download them and then post them in a file-sharing website somewhere that I can try to work with?

On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 6:57 PM Rickbrown <pan@intermountainac.net <mailto:pan@intermountainac.net>> wrote:
 >
 > The group name is alt.binaries.pictures.britishrailways so one might
 > expect a .jpg or other image format (a picture of a train). A scan of
 > the decoded data reveals no type clues like a .jpg SOM code (xffd8) or  > text descriptions. The source of the data is disclosed in the .msg file  > header section (giganews.com <http://giganews.com> alt.binaries.pictures.britishrailways:2911  > (which I assume is a message number)), but I do not know how to access
 > that message from the server. Do You?
 >
 > Thanks -Rick

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