Date   : Wed, 29 Sep 2010 06:12:22 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: 8-bit Articles wanted for next issue of Drag 'n Drop

On 28/09/2010 18:05, samwise wrote:

> So, yes, it's not plain text.  More detailed info here:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64

Thanks for the link. I was aware of MIME and Base64, but not that entire 
messages (esp. ones in plaintext!) would be encoded with it. Is that 
some sort of lame privacy thing? Okay, it's perhaps a step up from 
ROT13, but... ;-)


Best wishes,

Rick.

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