encoded messages in the ADS-L Digest

[Anne Gilbert]

Mark:

I got this exact same gibberish.   Of course I knew it was code, but I
couldn't decipher it.  Or "uncode" it.
Anne G

> Am I the only person for whom Gerald Cohen's posts show up as
> indecipherable blocks of alphanumeric code? E.g.:
>
>
IE1pZ2h0ICJtb2RlZCIgdG8gZGVzaWduYXRlIGZhaWx1cmUvc29tZXRoaW5nIHN0dXBpZCBkZXJp
>
dmUgZnJvbSAib3V0bW9kZWQiLS1zYXksIGluIGNsb3RoZXMgb3IgbXVzaWM/DQogDQpHZXJhbGQg
>
Q29oZW4NCg0KCS0tLS0tT3JpZ2luYWwgP01lc3NhZ2UtLS0tLSANCglGcm9tOiBBbWVyaWNhbiBE
>         [...]
>         [from Digest for 31 Dec 2003 to 1 Jan 2004 (#2004-2)]
>
> If so, there may be some setting I can apply to my mailreader. But I
> greatly fear that that is not the case, since these blocks show up
> embedded in Digests of otherwise clear text.
>
> -- Mark A. Mandel
>    Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania
>