OT: Help decoding SPAMMER's encoding of my contact info

[Bill Mullen]

On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, Michael ODonnell wrote:

> I wrote:
> >>> The encoded string is:
> >>>
> >>>  MTA2NDIwL21vZEB3b3JsZC5zdGQuY29tLy8
> >>
> >>It's base64. The decoded string is:
> >>
> >>106420/xxx at world.std.com
> >>
> >>HTH!
> >
> >It does help - thanks!  For the benefit of those here gathered, please
> >reveal your methods; how did you decode it?  Is there a simple filter
> >already existing (along the lines of uudecode) or did you have to write
> >something?
> 
> Ah!  Never mind - I should have known that there'd already be something
> in place.  I just said "apropos 64" on my Debian system and it told me
> about base64-decode...

I used "mimencode -u" on my Mandrake box, FWIW.

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