[Haskell-cafe] Question: mime-mail and base64 encoding

[Brandon S Allbery KF8NH]

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On 12/7/10 01:21 , Nathan Howell wrote:
> The way I've seen it done before was to:
> - calculate the size of the body in quoted-printable and base64 encoding
> - select the smaller encoded form of the two
> 
> quoted-printable is fairly human readable. This strategy also works
> for encoding headers, particularly Subject: lines (substituting
> q-encoding for qp).

"Quoted-Printable: a standard for mangling Internet messages
 Quoted-Unreadable: the result of applying said standard
 Unquoted-Unprintable: the comments from the recipients of the above"

(me, in alt.sysadmin.recovery.  I'm not sure how someone converted "Brandon
S Allbery KF8NH" into "bf8" but that's the universal attribution.)

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brandon s. allbery     [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl]      allbery at kf8nh.com
system administrator  [openafs,heimdal,too many hats]  allbery at ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university      KF8NH
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