Fair enough.... It's not perfect, and it has problems... But still, that
doesn't alter the fact that since those documents were written (Thanks for
the links BTW), yEnc pretty much HAS become a de facto standard and is
widely used on the internet.
It may not be pretty, but it's used everywhere, so why not add it in? Other
newsreaders manage too, and I've never had problems with them... I just
prefer the way OE does things...
"Jim Pickering" <jimp@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> YEnc is not as yet a standard among mail apps. When it becomes a standard
> and has an RFC outlining how it should and does work, then it might be
> acceptable. Until then, there are some reasons why it may create problems
> outlined in the following links.
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> Reasons why yEnc support is not a good idea:
> http://www.faerber.muc.de/temp/20020...c-harmful.html
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> Why yEnc is bad for Usenet:
> http://www.exit109.com/~jeremy/news/yenc.html
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> "Lorne Smith" <floating_fat_man@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1169C2E7-F6BE-4AA2-BC89-D0E65C3E3BA5@microsoft.com...
>> So, why does Vista Mail not support yEnc? People have been wanting
>> Outlook Express to support this fairly old, and VERY common, usenet
>> encoding method for a LONG time, and the latest version, now named Vista
>> Mail, was the perfect opportunity to include it.
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>> So, WHY have they chosen to ignore this widely used standard? I fail to
>> understand what possible reasoning they could have to ignore it,
>> especially when almost every other newsreader out there DOES.
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