Re: Anyone recognise this format?

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From: Harry Broomhall
Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 00:00

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David K McWilliams wrote:
> 
> A freind of mine recently received the following as an e-mail. He didn't
> know what to make of it so he decided to pass it onto to me (me
> foolishly thinks that I know a lot about this stuff). Could someone give
> me some advice on what this is and how it should be decoded, its' not
> uuencoded - which is what I thought it may be.
> 
> It starts........
 [lots of MIME snipped]

  Its MIME, using the base64 encoding.
If he has Windows on a PC then the best decoder is 'Wincode', available
from the simtelnet mirror on ftp.demon.co.uk.
   There are decoders for other platforms.

   A good e-mail program should have automaticaly recognised it, so
perhaps its time for him to look for one!

   Regards,
      Harry.

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From: Harry Broomhall <haeb@demon.net>
Subject: Re: Anyone recognise this format?
Date: 1997/05/09
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