The last word on yEnc

"flybywire" wrote in news:SFmoi.145$gX5.115@newsfe2-
win.ntli.net:

can someone pls remind me why a yenc jpeg is better than a jpeg

cheers

Mike
It is all a matter of perception Those who like the covenience of saving
bandwidth when downloading or uploading a lot of pics Those who don't or
refuse to use it froth at the mouth when others do. I don't post with it
but can download and decode them I can take or leave it.Why flame those
who use it Either don't downlod it or quietly killfile those who do if you
don't want it.

On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 12:07:14 GMT, "flybywire" wrote:

can someone pls remind me why a yenc jpeg is better than a jpeg

cheers

Mike

Although I've never posted using yEnc encoding b4, I think it is an
excellent method of keeping file sizes and download times down to a
minimum.

I vividly recall people complaining on this news group about others
posting beautiful high resolution images because it took too long to
download with their dial-up modems and it cut into their ISP limited
quotas.

I just went to alt.binaries.test and uploaded a 5.1MB file using
UUEncode, and then repeated the process using yEnc, and guess what...
There was a 280% reduction in the size of the file with no loss in
image quality.

Even when downloading via a broadband connection it soon makes a big
difference in MBs downloaded and time taken to do so when using the ye
olde fashion UUEncode method.

I have yet to read or hear an even remotely convincing argument as to
why the use of yEnc should be avoided... I've heard a lot of lame ones
though.

Elmo von Thud