Tony Hansen <tony(_at_)att(_dot_)com> wrote:
IMHO, blocking an email message because it's base64 encoded is
misguided. Here's a case in point: There are gateways out there that
will switch encodings on messages. If a message is sent through a
gateway that understands 8-bit messaging, and it is then passed
through to another system which only allows 7-bit, it's got to be
downgraded. Downgrading to base64 is perfectly reasonable for such a
gateway.
There are also various standards for sending assorted types of data
between systems, by email, that dictate that the pieces should be
base64-encoded. Most notably I recall doing that with IVM. (Haven't
kept up with that since then, tho, so I dunno if they've come up with
something else, or what....)
--
David J. Aronson, Unemployed Software Engineer in the Washington DC area
See http://destined.to/program/ for online resume and other information.
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