On 20 January 2012 19:48, g <geleem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 01/20/2012 10:48 AM, Ian Malone wrote: > <> > >> Don't know why you conclude that, spam links can have a short lifetime >> as they get shut down. > -=- > > i must be smoking something stronger than you. B=D > > i do not recall, nor see where i made such statement, or imply. > I was referring to this, which my mail client says you sent, apologies if you did not: "firefox displayed a "404". i broke link." Only picked up on it as I wasn't really sure what was meant. > >> FWIW I do agree base64 is an unfriendly way to send email text bodies. > -=- > > supposed reasoning is base64 compresses. > Base64 expands (necessarily since it tries to represent full octets with a subset), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64#MIME there isn't much of a rationale for using it in email text (though encoding is required for binary attachments), its main purpose seems to be obfuscating the text to make it harder to scan. -- imalone -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
