Steve, please disregard my previous message. Some online stores send emails encoded in Base64 as well, so I bit the bullet and wrote a simple Base64 decoder for incoming email.
Unlike commercial or open source Base64 decoders, mine checks for the nasty viruses and trojans that can ruin your day. However, there really is no need to encode your posts in Base64. Base64 is intended for transmitting binary files over transmission links that only accept regular ascii characters, like TCP/IP. It increases the file size by about 30% due to the extra characters needed for the encoding. This makes the files larger, which takes more space on the hard disk. Since the posts are already in ascii, there is no need to encode them. So if you can find the Base64 encoding feature in your email client, you might want to turn it off for others who may not be able to read your posts. Think of the people who may want to browse the archives, but cannot read your posts since they use readers that cannot decode Base64. Best Regards, Mike M. -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
