Subject: octet-stream

From: "Odelon Noel M. Zeta" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 20:07:25 -0800

hi !

i have several messages with octet-stream (base64 encoding)
attachments. I do not know how to read/open them.

please help.

thanks.

ode

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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 09:56:37 -0600 (CST)

>From: "Odelon Noel M. Zeta" <[email-masked]>
>Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 20:07:25 -0800

>i have several messages with octet-stream (base64 encoding) attachments.

Likely, these are documents prepared with a word processor. Octet-stream is a
MIME header that means miscellaneous.

The best thing you can do is to send a message to your correspondents
requesting that they save the output of their word processors as plain text,
formatted with no more than 78 characters per line in a fixed font. This way,
all proprietary encoding is removed and the message can be displayed on any
common terminal emulation.

Unless you know your recipient has the identical tools that you have, it is
generally considered to be rude to send anything but plain text via e-mail.