Subj : Picture
To   : Jas Hud
From : Arelor
Date : Mon Feb 07 2022 19:22:44

  Re: Picture
  By: Jas Hud to August Abolins on Sun Feb 06 2022 05:56 pm

 > 
 >  > True!  I forgot that WinRAR seems to recognize .uue content.
 > 
 >  > But it doesn't seem to support creating it, at least not from
 >  > the GUI interface.
 > 
 > 
 > well, i don't think we really need that format anymore. i think it's worth
 > abandoning.
 > 
 > sean is the first guy i've seen use it in like 10 years.

I think filesharers (aka the warez people) use uuencoding for sending massive
ammounts of binary data over text-only channels (such as the Usenet).

I wonder if the Usenet warez people is using the base64 variant or traditional
uuencode, though. Still, not a completely abbandoned practice.

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