Re: DALMATIAN ASCII Please (large posting [not anymore])

In article <32E...@online.no>, Erik Kambestad Veland <ekv...@online.no> writes:
|> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
[ ... ]
|> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; name=101
|> Content-Transfer-Encoding: BASE64
|> Content-ID: <Pin...@leonis.nus.sg>
|> Content-Description: 
|> 
|> DQoNCg0KDQoNCj4+ICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAg

Uhm.. excuse me for not being able to fully understand your
deepest thoughts, but why do you post ASCII art in base 64
encoding? The purpose of base 64 is to transmit binary data
in, uhm, ASCII format (alright, alright, it uses a subset of
the 7-bit ASCII character set). Of course, this has nothing
to do with the quality of your posts, which is good as always,
but it is a bit a of nuisance to decode them. Especially since
the posts (like the one I quoted) are not MIME compliant (you're
losing boundaries) so that they need to be fixed manually. And
then there is the over 33% overhead of base 64 encoding over
plain ASCII transmission.. (Or does the 72 column limit still
strike?)

Just thought I'd mention this - nothing personal :-)

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