Robin Whittle wrote on Thu, 19 Jun 2003 13:54:26 +1000:

> unless there really are legitimate messages being sent with
> base-64 encoding:
>

yes, there are, because some )()%&$% email programs, most notably Outlook 
Express, offer this encoding for text messages.
And, yes, SA decodes them and applies the tests on the unencoded contents.


Kai

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