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**Old Geezerr** · February 7th 20, 03:55 PM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation

On Fri, 07 Feb 2020 11:11:24 GMT, Me359 wrote:

Those posting have nothing to do with virusses or password protected files. These posts have been done using
Yenc encoding. That's another kind of encoding than just attaching a picture to a mail, and is used because
the post can be much more condensed and hacked into pieces, each section much smaller in size than a JPG
picture. It used be used a lot more when we still had slow internet connections and as far as I can see only
poster uses it here in the aviation group.
If you use a different newsgroup reader that is able to process Yenc encoded files you can easily read those
posts. I normally use Thunderbird for my e-mails and newsgroups and that application can't cope with Yenc.
I also use Newsleecher which easily deals with Yenc posting and can assure you that posts a lot
of great aviation pictures. But I admit, I don't always switch to Newsleecher and skip those files, it's just
too much work.

I use Forte Agent, which handles Yenc files with no trouble.

What got me about the postings is that the subject and posters name
are a random set of characters and no two posters names are the same.

Has anyone actually opened one of the postings?

Dave: