The attachment has to be converted into a format that won't get messed up when sent through various mail servers. Old mail servers (and those acting like them out of compatibility reasons) will mungle up certain binary sequences, so those sequences have to be pre-mungled and un-mungled later.
(for the techs in the crowd, I'm really simplifying, but the essence is the same). On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 11:22:16 -0700, Nick Keck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why when I get a message that has a (let's say for example purposes a > 325K size attachment) converts that to 432K when the entire message is > forwarded. > -- > Nick > > "If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then > I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled > for very little." > -- George Carlin > > -- Evil will win because good is dumb.
