[Elecraft] Base 64 Encoding (Was: K2#2735)

[Tom Russo]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 12:07:55PM -0400, a Mr. Richard Feyler of Fort Lee, New Jersey <olinger@bellsouth.net> wrote, Dear Rosanne Rosannadanna:
> Whether the base 64 comes out clean depends on the mail reader and sometimes
> the mail reader settings. SOME folks will be able to read it. Others not. 

Also depends on what MTA is used at the recipient's end.  My ISP auto-converts
some Base 64 (haven't quite figured out why it isn't "all base 64"... sigh)
and (awful) "MIME Quoted Printable" stuff to plain text.  Bless them, since
none of the mail readers I use would read that other cruft. 

AOL is notorious for making non-plain-text formats the standard in their
"mail clients" (actually, web browsers masquerading as mail clients), and then
hiding the settings from the users so they can't change them easily.  Perhaps
there's an equivalent setting to the "Convert to plain text if sending to user
that can't accept HTML" setting that's in some web browsers (e.g. mozilla)?

Another option that isn't obvious to many AOL users is that other internet
programs also work while AOL is dialed in --- so you can use IE or even
Mozilla instead of AOL, while still using AOL to do the internet connection.
Perhaps IE is more easily configured to respect plain text media?  I know
Mozilla is (www.mozilla.org).

> Plain text is the mode required for trouble-free operation on newsgroups and
> reflectors. 

Preach it, brother.

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