BASE64 and HTML in e-mail messages
Paul S. Wolf (Paul.S.Wolf@ALUM.WPI.EDU)
Wed, 15 Jan 1997 10:38:48 -0500
Just a friendly reminder for this and other e-mail lists (listserv,
majrdomo, etc.)
PLEASE set your mailer to NOT attach BASE64 or HTML code versins of your
messages. Also DO NOT copy the entire message you are responding to.
Edit it to the bare essentials.
If you are using EXCHANGE client or MSMail, you may be sending BASE64
and not know it.
BASE64 code shows up on many e-mail readers as screens full of binary
data that is completely unreadable. (see below)
Below is part of a recent post as an example of HTML that is worthless
in an e-mail message. Jim, I don't mean to pick on you, yours was just
the most recent I read.
.
> - ------------2B7953BB3CC93
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
>
> <HTML><BODY>
>
> <DT>JAMES C ELLIS wrote:<BR>
-----------snip ------------
>
| &nb
sp;
>
| &nb
sp;
> - - Bumper Sticker |<BR>
> |---------------------------------------------------------------------|<BR>
>
| &nb
sp;
>
http://lonestar.texas.net/~marshal1  
;
> |<BR>
>
---------------------------------------------------------------------<
BR>
> </DT>
>
> </BODY>
> </HTML>
> - ------------2B7953BB3CC93--
Here is what BASE64 looks like in an e-mail message: Real Helpful its
not.
------ =_NextPart_000_01BC025C.614E4EE0
Content-Type: application/ms-tnef
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
eJ8+IgUEAQaQCAAEAAAAAAABAAEAAQeQBgAIAAAA5AQAAAAAAADoAAENgAQAAgAAAAIAAgABBJAG
AFABAAABAAAADAAAAAMAADADAAAACwAPDgAAAAACAf8PAQAAAF0AAAAAAAAAgSsfpL6jEBmdbgDd
AQ9UAgAAAABBUlJPVy1MIC0gT3JkZXIgb2YgdGhlIEFycm93IEJTQSBMaXN0AFNNVFAAQVJST1ct
TEBUQ1VCVk0uSVMuVENVLkVEVQAAAAAeAAIwAQAAAAUAAABTTVRQAAAAA
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