Subject: Funny text file??

From: Henry Kuo <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 12:13:46 -0800 (PST)

Hi! , 

I got one problem here.  I think it is a bug.  

I tried to attach a text file with email to my friends who don't use 
pine.  However, they couldn't read the text file if they used mail to 
read the email.  Is there any way to correct it?

Thanks for any suggestion!

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^.^ Henry.........
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                HAPPY THANKSGIVING DAY!!!

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 13:30:09 -0800 (PST)

Henry,

This is a common question.  We believe that an *attachment* should be 
guaranteed to arrive intact.  The only way to do that is to use BASE64 
encoding which comes across as gibberish to non-MIME mail readers.  If 
you want to send a text file to people who do not have MIME capable mail 
readers, use ^R to include it in the body of the message.

Sorry about the inconvenience!

--DLM

|\ |  |\/|  David L. Miller    [email-masked]  (206) 685-6240
|/ |_ |  |  Software Engineer, Pine Development Team   (206) 685-4045 (FAX)
University of Washington, Networks & Distributed Computing
4545 15th Ave NE, Seattle WA 98105, USA

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