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Hi Microsoft Office Software Support Group, I have searched the internet
(well Google anyway) for the answer to this problem I’m having with
Outlook, and it seems I am not alone. Several of the results bring me
to this forum alas none to the solution. Perhaps it’s the way in which
the question is being asked? So to deliberate a tad…

Before I begin; Enabling ‘Block image and other external content in
HTML e-mail’ is not the solution. This simply blocks images and content
not actually in the mail, but linked to on internet sites.

So to start; I’m subscribed to a newsgroup where people post their
collections of images. They want their collection of images to remain
as a group, but to post them as one post would be huge, so they divide
the post in to several posts calling them for instance Iceland 1-7,
Iceland 2-7, Iceland 3-7 etc. (At times there may be as many as 200
posts). Some people even go as far as to encoding their posts using a
program called yEnc32 (http://www.yenc32.com/).

Readers of this newsgroup, who wish to see those images would have to
sort the posts by title, select the group of posts and, using Outlooks
tool, Combine and decode the files.

Once the process of downloading has completed and outlook has combined
and decoded the file the ‘still’ encoded (yEnc32) file opens as one
e-mail message and begins the task of SEARCHING FOR HYPERLINKS…. To the
annoyance of the reader of the group who is simply trying to save the
e-mail as a .txt file and close the combined e-mail.

Saving the e-mail as a .txt file allows yEnc32 to complete the decoding
process thus allowing the reader to view the images.

So the question remains; how do you stop Outlook from Searching for
these Hyperlinks which are not hyperlinks but actually part of the
encoded document?


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getoblastPosted from - http://www.officehelp.in

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getoblast wrote:

So the question remains; how do you stop Outlook from Searching for
these Hyperlinks which are not hyperlinks but actually part of the
encoded document?

First, let's be clear: Outlook does NOT have the ability to access
newsgroups at all. Outlook calls on Outlook Express to do that, starting OE
with the /outnews command line switch to skin it with the title "Microsoft
Outlook Newsreader". Click Help, however, and you'll see "About Microsoft
Outlook Express" as the last entry in the menu list.

That said, you cannot disable Outlook Express's insistence in scanning for
hyperlinks. When I wish to read the binary newsgroups where yEnc messages
are posted, I use Forte Agent, a freeware newsreader with built-in yEnc
support.
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Brian Tillman

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"getoblast" wrote in message
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snip - bunch of yEnc comments that aren't applicable to Outlook anyway


yEnc doesn't even bother to attempt to get drafted and then ratified through
IETF as an RFC because it would never survive the scrutiny. What do you
expect of an author that lies in claiming his "borrowed" adaption of someone
else's work has somehow become "standardized"? No link to that claimed
standardization, fails to mention the author had professed to deliberately
NOT attempt to get yEnc ratified, submitted a proposal but which didn't even
become an IETF draft, and no doesn't even allude to what the
"standardizatio" is. Apparently "standard" to the author simply means lots
of users use it to get their daily fix of binary content. "No, there is no
'formal standard' for yEnc" (http://www.yenc.org/user.htm).

Go use some other NNTP client that attempts to support the moving yEnc spec.
Outlook isn't even an NNTP client but considering that you think yEnc is
such a great kludge probably explains why you are in the wrong newsgroup,
too. Outlook EXPRESS is free but doesn't support yEnc because, at this
time, Microsoft probably has no desire to support a non-standard encoding
format whose vast majority of use is for porn. There are lots of other free
NNTP clients, some of which support yEnc. Stop trying to use a screwdriver
as a hammer. Get the tool which is right for the task. For yEnc, that
ain't Outlook EXPRESS.

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