Re: CHAT: Corrupt messages (was CHAT: Doug Ball, PhD)

Mail gateways have a history of altering mail as it passes through
(you might recall the issues we used to have with Unicode on this
list, as an example).  To prevent that, when you write a message, your
mail program encodes it before sending it, and the receiving mail
program is supposed to decode it.  The encoding is resilient in the
face of the sort of changes mail gateways make,  so the receiving
person sees exactly what you typed.  Clearly something is going awry
in this case.



On 12/13/08, Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 17:00, Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> wrote:
>> David McC wrote:> > and yet another> >> >
>> T24gRnJpLCBEZWMgMTIsIDIwMDggYXQgNTozNyBQTSwgUm9nZXIgTWlsbHMgPHJmbWlsbHlAbXNu
>>
>> That was in one of MY messages?????
>
> That's Base-64-speak for
>
>     On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Roger Mills <rfmilly@msn
>
> , in case you're curious. So, yes, it likely was in one of your
> messages -- but in the encoded form, which should have been decoded by
> readers' email clients so that only computers had to deal with the
> "T24gRnJp" business.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
>
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