Good lord man.  Don't you ever look at porn on Usenet?  It's a rich
resource, not to be missed by anyone who masturbates.  But you have to
decode it from ascii back to binary.

The Opera newsreader must have a built-in script to do that.
Otherwise you can save the post as a text file, download uudeview, and
run it from a console.  It's a b64 attachment, not one of those
goddamn yEncs.

Charlie

Indeed.  I sometimes let him out when I am there to supervise
directly.  He is one of those cats who can be taken for a walk, so I
do that sometimes too.  He makes it pretty easy for me to maintain him
as an indoor cat, because he doesn't usually want to go outside, and
he is very tidy with his litterbox habits.

Did you figure out how to decode the binary in Opera, or did you have
to use a 3d party widget?

Tools in my Usenet binary arsenal:

-- Ydec.exe, a console utility for yEnc files, because my version of
Agent is pre-yEnc

-- Rar32.exe, console utility for .rar archives

-- QuickPar, for fixing archives with errors (usually yEnc that passed
through an older server or modem).

-- Gspot, for figuring out what kind of codec a given .avi file
requires

-- Mastroska for those damned ogg vorbis files

-- Simple File Joiner, because sometimes archives still need to be
joined after decoding

-- 7zip for people who are too goddamn special to use normal methods
of compression

Soemtimes, I swear, people go out of their way to post binaries that
are as tricky to handle as possible.  Others are just clueless.  But
my motto is, "if I want it, and it's there, I'm by god gonna get it."

Charlie