On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 10:03:23 -0400, Theodore Heise <theo@heise.nu>
wrote:

>On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:40:34 +0000 (UTC),
> Sylvain Robitaille <syl@alcor.concordia.ca> wrote:
>> Manuel Otto wrote:
>>
>>> Have tried Pan. It was terrible... When I remeber well it had
>>> no support for Yenc, multi-part binaries didn't combine
>>> automatically, and where completely non-intuitive combining by
>>> hand.
>>
>> Hrmmm ... it doesn't sound to me like you're looking for a
>> "newsreader" so much as a "file-sharing client." Some (myself
>> included) would argue that Yenc shouldn't have happened, at
>> least not the way that it did, which is very likely why you're
>> still finding newsreading software that doesn't support it.
>
>Yep. I don't see how at all the "reading news" aspect of
>newsreading correlates to binary files.
>
>
>> ...I would argue that "*binaries*" is not serious "grown-up
>> Usenet news", but that may be "just me" ...
>
>Nope, not just you. The bandwidth consumed by binaries has been a
>factor in the consolidation of news services into fewer and fewer
>options, as well as decreasing retention times. I'd much rather
>see text only news the norm, and longer article retention times.

But that is an entirely different discussion, which comes up every now
and then.

Binaries (and Yenc are her (Usenet) to stay).

I download binaries, often enough Yenc-encoded, so I need a (binary)
News reader which supports Yenc.

Clear enough.

Usenet was not designed for anything else as simple text messages. But
then, Web wasn't designed for pictures, javascript, css, plugins,
on-line banking, etc...

And Internet wasn't designed to be used by the masses. Yes, this
turned out to be a disaster ;-)