> Do you folks think that an "average and typical" Windows user who uses Outlook or Outlook Express know how to deal with a UUENCODED attachment? Using a "standard" Windows installation, would the user be able to automagically decode and open a UUENCODED attachment in the same manner as a MIME encoded attachment? Does Windows do something weird with the attachment so as to make the user see an icon to click on instead of simply inserted text? Of course any experienced Windows user would know how to deal with it in any case. My question concerns whether an "average and typical" user would know what to do in order to decode and open a UUENCODED attachment. Does a standard Windows installation include a program for dealing with UUENCODED attachments?
> Sam Heywood You mean Windows email clients don't do that (uudecode) automatically, without the user even knowing? Windows users had no trouble uudecoding and running the Happy99.exe virus, which was sent in a uuencoded message. I was in OS/2 Warp 4 when I received that virus in uuencoded form, and I never uudecoded it.
