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What is yENC or messages with a [yENC] note in the subject?

April 26, 2017Messages note Subject yEnc

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What is yENC or messages with a [yENC] note in the subject?

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yEnc is a new encoding method which offers efficient and proper transmission for binaries on the Usenet (or by eMail and other applications). Other encodings are BASE64, BinHex, UUencode, Quoted Printable, etc. yEnc is NOT a multimedia or archival format (MOV, ZIP) nor a picture format.