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Also known as: yEncode
An encoding scheme that packs binary data into Usenet articles with roughly 1-2% overhead, compared to about 35% for uuencode or Base64. Introduced in 2001, it works by escaping only the handful of byte values that would otherwise break the NNTP protocol. Nearly every binary posted to Usenet today is yEnc-encoded, and every modern newsreader decodes it automatically.
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