[ILUG] semding binary files using mail

[Brian Foster]

  | Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 19:10:37 +0000
  | From: Ronan Waide <waider at waider.ie>
  | 
  | On February 26, Brian Foster <blf at utvinternet.ie> said:
  | >  as others have suggested, you could use uuencode(1), but your recipient
  | >  had better be both tech-savvy and (probably) using an *ix system, or else
  | >  it will still be c**p.   Big Bad Bill does not "earn" royalties from
  | >  uuencode, so support for it on Windoze games consoles is non-existent.
  | 
  | Quite the contrary. As documented publicly of late, Outlook in fact
  | interprets any paragraph beginning with the word "begin" [ ... ] as
  | uuencoded text, which it will duly attempt to uudecode. Tough luck if
  | it wasn't actually uuencoded text in the first place.

interesting.  I presume this is "recent"; i.e., sites still using,
e.g., Windoze 98, would still consider uuencoded context c**p ??
 
what happens if the uuencoding is ``begin 555 C:\SETUP.BAT'' (or
whatever the name of the magic startup "script" is ... ) ??

cheers!
	-blf-
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