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

-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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hi,

Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 11:48:43 EDT, jr wrote:
> ...
> > 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):

thank you for the explanation.  I had wondered, seeing the file names, if
there'd been a "configuration issue".  fwiw, the more "glib" version does sort
of sum it all up, neatly.


@Clarence1998
the web-ui is "clunky", but your previous posts were alright, so why not simply
"revert" to that method ?


regards, jr.

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Le 2025-08-21 à 18:16, Clarence1898 a écrit :
> Clarence1898 <dle### [at] comcastnet> wrote:
>> No, not about Arnold.  I have always liked to model odd things.  This is
>> from my early mainframe days.  Control units were daisy chained on channel
>> cables.  This gadget was attached at the end to terminate the channel
>> cable.  I doubt that I will ever use it in a scene, but it was fun to
>> model.
> 
> My apologies to everyone.  I couldn't figure how to attach multiple files with
> the povray web page.  I tried a news reader program not realizing how it encoded
> the files.  How do I attach multiple files in a povray post?
> 
 From the web interface, you can only attach a single file.
You need to use a proper client. I recommend Thunderbird. In a pinch, 
you may even use Outlook/Outlook Express.

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