Re: Strange text viewing

[Carlos Morgado <chbm chbm nu>]

On 2002.05.14 16:28:25 +0100 Brian Stafford wrote:

> 
> In any case, a client doesn't have much chance to behave correctly when 
> incorrect content-transfer-encodings are specified.  It might be possible 
> to devise a heuristic to detect when data declared as base64 is not 
> actually encoded and attempt to use it verbatim but I reckon this will 
> cause more problems than it solves.  Perhaps it might be better to detect

That sounds too much like seeing a line saying "begin" and going uudecode
map. Lets leave that sort of stuff to more imperfect MUAs ;)


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