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Thus said stanley@ruby.OCE.ORST.EDU (John Stanley):
>Is there any good reason why MIME chose to go with its own version of
>binary encoding instead of using UUENCODE?
>
>While there are some systems that can't pass UUENCODEd data (converting
>one ASCII character to something else, as I recall), UUENCODE IS almost
>universally available, while MIME is not. 

This is exactly why.  It doesn't do much good for the recipient to
have uudecode available if the data was munged somewhere along the
way.  By the way, MIME didn't invent base64 encoding out of thin air,
but borrowed it from the PEM RFCs.

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