Converting HTML and MIME to plain text mail

[Ben Scott]

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 1:03 AM, Ric Werme <ewerme at comcast.net> wrote:
> Who invented BASE64 anyway, when uuencoding work just fine already?

  According to what I find on the web, BASE64 is portable across more
character sets.

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/uuencode.html#tag_04_163_18

  I'm actually surprised there was a real reason.  I figured someone
was just reinventing the wheel again.  It's what we do.

  "... repetition is the very soul of the 'net."

-- Ben