.jpg beeing downloaded as .txt. Convert?

Try just renaming the filetype to .jpg and see if that makes it work.
It could be that it's already in the right format but just has the filetype renamed.
 
Well is it doing this with EVERY jpg that you download, or just that specific one?
If it's that specific one then my guess is the file is corrupt, try getting it from somewhere else.
If it's every file that you download named jpg then what client are you using? It could be a setting you can change or a bug in the program.
I'm using newsleecher and have no problem with jpg files.
 
It could be an incomplete file and thus, your usenet program doesnt convert it to jpeg. If you are getting your usenet access from your ISP, thats probably the reason. ISP's usenet has very low retention and very low completion rates.
 
my guess is whatever they are using to upload these jpegs to usenet is getting the Content-Type wrong.

i have seen loads of these before but never figured out a way to actual open them.
 
wow, quite a bump.

Although virtually all big files use Yenc encoding, quite a few misc small file attachments posted to usenet (like photographs) are often encoded using other, older methods (such as mime, uuencode, etc.. ) Non-supported binary attachment formats will usually appear as a huge dump of text.

I know that Grabit only supported Yenc encoded attachments.

That's if anyone is still interested. :)
 
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