Re: [Pan-users] yEnc.msg files and formats

[John Wendel]

Hi all

I certainly don't think that yEnc is a piracy conspiracy.

Most of the pirate files I've encountered are encrypted binary files 
that require a password to decrypt.  Since I don't have the password, I 
can't tell the actual file format. They have long filenames of random 
letters, but are in multiple parts like "rar" files.

And since I cannot get a list of the files in the britishrailway group, 
because my version of PAN crashes when asked to download the groups 
headers, I just guessed that the files are "strangely" formatted.

I'd like to help with this mystery, but am unable to even start, so just 
ignore me <smile>.

I LOVE PAN!

John


On 3/12/21 4:16 PM, RickBrown wrote:
> pan runs on my Fedora 32 spin. Interesting that yEnc may be thought of 
> somekinda piracy conspiracy. I'll change my question to the list "Have 
> you ever used pan to download and display yEnc encoded messages?"
>
>
> On 03/12/21 09:04, John Wendel wrote:
> > 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 <pan@intermountainac.net 
> > > <mailto:pan@intermountainac.net>> 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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