On 20 January 2012 19:48, g <geleem(a)bellsouth.net> wrote:
On 01/20/2012 10:48 AM, Ian Malone wrote:
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> 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.
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imalone