Editing YEnc (section)

== yEncode adoption ==
The yEncode draft proposal document was made available on 31 July 2001.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.yenc.org/yEnc-draft-1.txt |title=The original draft yEnc 1.0 |date=2001-07-31}}</ref> A reference encoder and decoder was included in the MyNews 1.9 freeware version in November that year.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.winews.net/news/a-brandnew19.htm |title=New features in 1.9 |website=winews.net |author=Juergen "The Archiver" Helbing}}</ref> yDec, a freeware win32 decoder came on 14 November 2001.<!-- yDec 1.0  14.Nov.2001 --> On 21 March 2002, [[Forté Agent|Agent]] supported yEnc with version 1.91.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.forteinc.com/news/bulletin.php?id=agent191gr |title=Agent 1.91 is Released |quote=Agent 1.91 provides full support for yEnc, a new Usenet encoding algorithm for binaries. |website=forteinc.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |first=Scott |last=Spanbauer |date=August 2002 |title=Revision control - Latest Software Tweaks (Listen to a world of radio stations on the Internet) |journal=PC World |volume=20 |number=8 |pages=138–139 |quote=Version 1.92 of Forté's Usenet newsreader adds a trash folder, improves some existing features, and takes care of various bugs; but more important than the fixes and enhancements is the application's added support for the YEnc binary encoding algorithm.}}<!-- Yes, their version number and capitalization is off--></ref> Due to feedback of Juergen Helbing, the release was postponed by one week.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.forteinc.com/news/bulletin.php?id=agent191more |title=Agent 1.91 needs one more week |date=2002-03-15 |website=Forté}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.forteinc.com/news/bulletin.php?id=agent191juergen |title=Juergen Helbing's feedback on yEnc and Agent 1.91 |date=2002-03-17 |website=Forté}}</ref> A couple of days after the release Jürgen Helbing wrote that Forté implemented yEnc ''in the best way imaginable''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.yenc.org/forte.htm |title=Forte Agent 1.91 supports yEnc |first=Jürgen |last=Helbing |date=2002-03-22}}</ref>

[[StuffIt|Stuffit Deluxe]] added yEnc support with version 8.0 in 2003.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.macworld.com/article/1026760/stuffit.html |title=StuffIt Deluxe 8.0 gets new plug-ins, performance boost |first=Dennis |last=Sellers |date=2003-09-22 |website=[[Macworld]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Breen |first=Christopher |date=July 2004 |title=Stufflt Deluxe 8.0 |journal=Macworld |volume=21 |number=7 |pages=40}}</ref> PowerArchiver 9.2 added yEnc support in May 2005.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1811881,00.asp |author=Richard V. Dragan |date=2005-05-04 |title=File Compression: PowerArchiver 9.2}}</ref>