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

[Bob Bell]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 11:12:03AM -0500, Bill Mullen wrote:
> 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.

And FWIW, I typically use perl to do my base64 decoding:
perl -MMIME::Base64 -le 'print decode_base64("MTA2NDIwL21vZEB3b3JsZC5zdGQuY29tLy8")'

Obviously TMTOWTDI.

-- 
Bob Bell