Interviewed by CNN on 20/2/2010 15:49, Juiceman told the world:
> Im wondering why Seamonky has never had a yEnc decoder built into the 
> program? Also why people post yEnc pictures? Does yEnc encoded pictures 
> save that much space or bandwidth?

Well, the Mozilla project is all for following (and fostering)
standards. The problem is that yEnc is not a recognized standard -- and
besides, it has serious design flaws. And you should think twice about
implementing/endorsing a spec that *its own author* criticizes...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YEnc
http://www.faerber.muc.de/temp/20020304-yenc-harmful.html

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