Re: e-mail

[Michael Norman mn2@xxxxxxxx]

At 08:38 AM 12/17/99 -0500, Nathan Sivin wrote:
>What does "email decoding" mean? My email arrives in readable
>form.

Nathan,

Yesterday I got a long message from an associate in Tokyo that was composed of the following kind of
text:
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEgASAAoAAQBbAA8AAgAFAAMA
BQA6AABA8f8CADoAAAACABlqlm4AAAgAAAADJAMxJAAcAENKFQBLSAIAT0oFAFBKAwBRSgUAbUgJ
BG5IEQQwAAFgAQACADAAAAAFAIuJ+lFXMCAAMQAAAAsAAQADJAEGJAFAJgAABwA1CIFDShgAAAAA

According to the header, she used outlook. I tried opening the message in several programs, hoping
they would translate it. Then I went to the Eudora manual and it offered: "If you receive a
large message consisting largely of indecipherable text, it is probably an attachment that was not
automatically decoded. Usually this is because the attachment headers are formatted incorrectly. To
decode...open the message and...save as a text file. Then run the decoding utility appropriate to
the encoding method that the sender used. Decoding utilities can be found at various shareware
sites."

I'm not sure what encoding method was used here, but I'll fish around, find a decoder or two and try
it. I wonder if the U2 decoder will work?

Michael Norman