On 20 January 2012 19:48, g geleem@bellsouth.net 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.
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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.
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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.