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Re: UUEncoding File Attachment



"Carl S. Gutekunst" <csg@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Russ Allbery wrote:

>> uuencode is still moderately common on Usenet.

> Mostly for porn, AFAIK.

Yeah, the copyright violations have mostly switched to yEnc since it has
less bloat, so it's only the old-school porn posters who still use
uuencode.

> Dumping undelimited uuencode "attachments" into a plain E-mail text body
> is quite common in automated notifications from commercial applications.

Huh.  I suppose I should thank someone that I've never had to deal with
commercial applications living that many decades in the past.

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Russ Allbery (rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>