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| (gu)stav (no@hushmail.rightnow) |
2009/03/11 10:34 |
A few thoughts to add to this:
1. If we're talking about stories (or anything else) in plain text, the
simplest thing to do might just be to post them as ordinary messages,
like this one. Just copy and paste the story from your word processor.
2. Another good place to post stories is the Nifty archive (www.nifty.org).
3. About yEnc ... yEnc is not really a file-compression protocol.
That is, it does not reduce file sizes, as for instance Zip or RAR can
do in the case of large files.
yEnc is an encoding method which is used for posting binary files (like
JPEGs or MP3s) on Usenet. It works much more efficiently than older
encoders -- Base64, UUencode, MIME, and so forth.
ALL binary files posted to Usenet are encoded before uploading and
decoded after downloading -- you may not be aware of this, because your
software probably handles it automatically and transparently.
The reason all files must be encoded is that Usenet is an
old-fashioned, text-only medium. Every Usenet post, as it exists on
your news server, consists entirely of plain text (ASCII) characters.
But of course the original binary file is NOT a text file -- it
contains all sorts of complicated data. So various techniques have
been invented over the years to translate back and forth between text
and data in order to make groups like this possible. yEnc is the
newest and best of these techniques.
The problem with encoding is that it increases the size of the original
file. Older (pre-yEnc) encoding methods increase the file size by
30-40 percent. yEnc is much more efficient, increasing file size by
only about about 3 percent.
What this means:
Using yEnc, a 100 kb photo becomes a 103 kb text file when it is
uploaded and downloaded.
Without yEnc, the same 100 kb photo becomes a text file of about 138 kb
(according to some tests run several years ago in the Fort by a poster
named Kidhacker).
This means, of course, that yEnc-encoded files are quicker to upload
and download. They are also smaller, which can be important if you have
limited bandwidth or a limit on how much you can download, for instance.
On 2009-03-11 11:43:01 -0400, Anon <anon@invalid.invalid> said:
> Hermes,
>
> Thanks for the response. First, let me say that the 'right thing' often
> depends on who you talk to and how you phase the question. Second, the
> reason to use Yenc is that it compresses the post to reduce the size. This
> is not an issue with plain text as they are only a few thousand bytes
> rather than megabytes in size. I'll even question whether yenc compression
> of jpeg files (which are already compressed) save very much. I know that
> [win]zipping jpeg is not space saving. That all said, let me continue.
>
> I'm not personally familiar with your program, Yenc Power Post, but the
> easiest way would be if there was an option 'post normal' rather than 'post
> yenc encoded'.
>
> I note that you posted your response in plain text mode using Agent. Then
> you have all the capability that you need. Just use Agent next time.
>
> Further, I note that you 'ping'ed me rather than just replying to my post.
> That started a new thread and kept the two parts separate. Note that I
> used Agent to reply to your post in both cases so that my replied are
> linked to your posts. This makes following interchanges easier assuming
> that you have your newsreader set to show all post (not just unread ones)
> and use threading.
>
> If you are not using Agent to read the newsgroup, you can still do this. In
> your Yenc agent get the post to reply to, find the message id in the
> measure header (you should have a way to do this). Then back in Agent
> start a new message and paste that message id in. Then right click it and
> tell Agent to get the message. When you have it, you can reply to it.
>
> At the risk of being a gadfly, I note that this is a binary group. Although
> binary posts in text groups is a big no-no, that certainly is not true the
> other way around. But, people who don't read binaries, might like your
> stories and you might want to consider posting in one of those groups. The
> most general one that comes to mind assuming that you have some erotic
> content is <alt.sex.stories.moderated>. It is essentially free of spam and
> cross-posts to <alt.sex.stories> (full of spam) for greater distribution.
> There is a companion group <alt.sex.stories.d> for discussions.
>
> HTH
>
> Anoin
> P&E
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