On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 11:04:05 -0700, "John Smith"
Gave us:

Cecil:

Most joking aside, you seen uuencode/uudecode in heavy use up until 1995 when the sudden flood of cheap computers brought all the "riff-raff-know-it-all-regulators" here, since then it tapered until you only see it in use on "binary mostly" chans...


Even with uuencode, Usenet had line length limits, and was and is
all text. Any encoded post shows it and proves it. If you want your
file to pass correctly, you limit line length, plain and simple.
Otherwise your uuencode **** is just as lame as your poorly formatted
**** is. Catching up yet? It was the same back then, and hasn't
changed. That makes YOU the one that is talking out of your ass.

There are other reasons as well, but this "Smiff" dolt doesn't even
understand the order of things, he doesn't play well with others. He
thinks everyone else should do as he does, when he is the dolt that is
outside the box. I don't care how ****ing long you claim to have been
reading and using NNTP networks. You're an abject idiot.