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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/>