Posted by Yenc-Post 2002 on 01/19/01 11:41

"AlmostBob" <anonymous1@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
news:7X3Of.12439$M52.10163@edtnps89:

> Usenet will not reduce bandwidth
> files on usenet are mime encoded or yenc encoded where a text
> representation of the byte is used instead of the byte, this makes the
> files way larger than the information they contain, send yourself an
> image included in an email and see the size of the email compared to
> the original image
>

yEnc encodes make the files smaller.

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