invisible strands (off topic)

A. Vine avine at ENG.SUN.COM
Mon Apr 3 17:49:54 UTC 2000


"Dennis R. Preston" wrote:
>
> Alice,
>
> You are right about that !@#$%^&*()_+ Outlook Express. It's not only a evil
> sender, but it won't even read attachments sent in binhex format (for
> example) without considerable tweaking.

No-one should be sending attachments in binhex, except files that one Mac user
is sending to another known Mac user; binhex is Macintosh proprietary.  The
universal attachment encodings for mail are base64 and quoted printable, and
uuencode is marginally acceptable because it became a sort of de facto Internet
transport encoding.

Andrea



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