On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 16:38:35 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: > 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. Nope, that doesn't explain it. I am talking about base64 MIME encoded HTML attachments having plain ascii characters, as in the English and Spanish languages. Another person posting on this subject mentioned having received some spams consisting of base64 MIME encoded HTML attachments written in various oriental languages. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/
