Subject: I need help and advice on encoded messages.

From: "Rebecca Roberts" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 97 20:58:16 PDT

Dear PIne-info,
Please can you help a real "Greenhorn". I received an e mail yesterday that was in gobbledegook. The first part I could read and then it was all just numbers and letters, It says
Content type: application/octet/stream
Content transfer:encoding base64
I know it came from a friend using Windows 95 and writing in Word 7 (I think he said)
I am using windows 3.11 and Word 6 but do not know how to unencode it, can you help me? It came to my Juno account which is [email-masked]
I would really appreciate any help you can give me and I apologise if this is so simple that you wonder why I ask-sufice to say- I ask because I do not know.
"as aye:"
Rebecca

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From: "Colin J. Raven" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 19:16:49 -0700

Hi Rebecca!
Alas, you should email your friend, and  ask him/her what browser they are
using. Also let me know what browser you are using. If anyone is
interested, you can see some work I did, "back when" while grappling with
such problems.Point your browser at
http://linus.uhmc.sunysb.edu/~colin/mail.html
Files have to be "attached" or sent in a form that BOTH ends can
understand. (Kind of like me sending you a document in Russian, when you
can only speak Chnese). Start by suggesting to your friend that they adjust
(tweak) their browser to UUencode (unless they are using Netscape mail 3.0
in which case that client can't speak UUencode. If it's really critical,
then I suggest you both download and install a copy of Eudora Light, which
will enable you both to "speak the same encoding language"
You can get Eudora Light by downloading it from
http://www.eudora.com/eudoralight/#download
If you really run into any seemingly intractable problems, email me
off-list and I'll help you solve the problem further.
Colin

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From: Rebecca Roberts <[email-masked]>
To: Pine Discussion Forum <[email-masked]>
Subject: I need help and advice on encoded messages.
Date: Monday, October 06, 1997 8:58 PM

Dear PIne-info,
Please can you help a real "Greenhorn". I received an e mail yesterday that
was in gobbledegook. The first part I could read and then it was all just
numbers and letters, It says
Content type: application/octet/stream
Content transfer:encoding base64
I know it came from a friend using Windows 95 and writing in Word 7 (I
think he said)
I am using windows 3.11 and Word 6 but do not know how to unencode it, can
you help me? It came to my Juno account which is [email-masked]
I would really appreciate any help you can give me and I apologise if this
is so simple that you wonder why I ask-sufice to say- I ask because I do
not know.
"as aye:"
Rebecca

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