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From: Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk>
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Subject: Re: Malicious USB Interfaces In Airports
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2024 09:22:21 +0100
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Ralph Fox wrote:

> I suspect Andy's posts
> are base64 encoded when they contain non-ASCII characters 

Yes, I did tests several months ago

> (no matter
> what the charset) because I suspect Andy's Thunderbird preference
> 'mail.strictly_mime' is set to true.

With various charsets, with/without the "strictly" setting, on messages 
that were 7-bit clean or otherwise.

My conclusion was that everything annoys somebody, but the least 
annoying overall is to embrace UTF-8 and put up with base64 where it 
isn't really required.