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Article #719759Re: A GOG DRM-free release is announced on Steam :-) :-)
From: Rin Stowleigh
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 20:36
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 20:36
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On Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:59:49 -0400, David Lamb <dal...@cs.queensu.ca> wrote: >On 23/03/2013 2:45 PM, John Lewis wrote: >> As far as decoding anything other than plain-text on these newsgroups >> I have no interest. > >Several people consider Andrew's post to *be* plain text. It says so >right in the MIME header. That was part of my earlier point. Base64 is plain text. It is taking something else (perhaps binary data, or data that requires a unicode byte width) and expressing it as text that can be read as 7- bit (I am admittedly simplying a bit to avoid writing a dissertation). I think John's concern was that when he saw the Base64 characters, he was worried that it might have been some sort of malicious binary data (technically it could have been, I would need to see the original post as he did but there's still no need to worry about some sort of malicious virus or whatever, simply by opening a usenet post, with any sort of combination of modern PC/OS combined with even remedial PC skills, so too much has been made out of it, IMO.
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