Re: yEnc.msg files and formats

Very strange, when I try to download headers in this group, PAN crashes.

I would guess that this group is being used (like many others) to 
distribute encrypted files of copyrighted material.

Running latest PAN on Linux Mint.

Regards - John

On 3/11/21 7:23 PM, Sarah Taylor wrote:
> My ISP lists that newsgroup but when I try to use it no contents are 
> available.  Have you downloaded an yenc decoder yet?  I downloaded a 
> windows one called yEnc32. I haven't found a newsgroup that had any yenc 
> files in it, at least using Pan newsreader.  I kinda recall from years 
> ago I would download all the messages associated with a picture file 
> into a folder and then point my yenc decoder to the contents of that folder.
> 
> If the contents of all the associated messages are not too big, can you 
> download them and then post them in a file-sharing website somewhere 
> that I can try to work with?
> 
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 6:57 PM Rickbrown <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>  >
>  > The group name is alt.binaries.pictures.britishrailways so one might
>  > expect a .jpg or other image format (a picture of a train). A scan of
>  > the decoded data reveals no type clues like a .jpg SOM code (xffd8) or
>  > text descriptions. The source of the data is disclosed in the .msg file
>  > header section (giganews.com <http://giganews.com> 
> alt.binaries.pictures.britishrailways:2911
>  > (which I assume is a message number)), but I do not know how to access
>  > that message from the server. Do You?
>  >
>  > Thanks -Rick

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