Sam, The answer to your question is so simple it took me forever to figure out. <G>
>> l have recently been receiving some spams consisting of HTML > attachments as base64 MIME encoded! >> The spams are advertisements for purportedly cracked and pirated > versions of Windows XP and other expensive payware products. >> Why do they send these attachments as base 64 MIME encoded? Although some software is out there that recognizes Chinese and Japanese idiographs as a "font," the majority of the code is not "standard" and -- if you think back you'll remember -- when those html pages come up on screen they look like they are filled with machine code. MIME/Base64 standards say "If it ain't regular ASCII TEXT, encode the sucker!" And *that* is why those attached HTML pages come encoded. -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
