On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 11:48:43 EDT, jr wrote:

> thanks for the heads-up, had not known of this abomination </grin>. 
> Wikipedia explains: The name yEncode is a wordplay on "Why encode?". 
> quite..

The Wikipedia author must have asked ChatGPT. :laughing:

Here's what the official site says (pulled from the Internet Archive as 
the site seems to be offline):

"You might ask why the name of this thing is "yEnc" - yEncoding, 
yDecoding.
Well - I did introduce the name "MyNews" for another project (in 1997) 
long before everybody began to use My-Xxxx for his services or domain 
names. When I designed the new encoding I needed any name for it. But as 
all the 'MyXxxx' names were already in use (so I could not use MyEnc). I 
wanted a new name - which is nearly unique on the Internet. The name 
"yEncode" was never used - and the short form would be yEnc. The file-
extension *.ync would also be unique - so I found a short and good name."

https://web.archive.org/web/20240704064321/http://www.yenc.org/whatis.htm

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besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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