BASE64 [was: various]

[Ben Rosengart]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 09:16:53AM +0200, Boris 'pi' Piwinger wrote:
> Matthias Andree <matthias.andree at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> >As someone (I believe Boris) has pointed out,
> >spammers won't use base64 to deceive spam traps because that will render
> >the mail unreadable.
> 
> I once posted some statistics about the use of base64. To my
> very surprise it was used by spammers significantly.

I think Matthias' point is that they will use base64, but they will
also use an honest Content-Transfer-Encoding header, because
otherwise clients will display the raw base64, which won't sell any
golf balls or Viagra at all.

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