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Date: 28 Feb 1997 01:03:29 +0100
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Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com> writes:

> I think you mean "binary" instead of "8bit".

Yes.

>  > [...]
>  > The real question is: why did VM choose to use base64 instead of
>  > quoted-printable?
> 
> Any MIME body in a composition that would require a 'binary'
> content transfer encoding gets BASE64 encoded.

Is this a MIME requirement, or a VM design decision?  Heiko's message
could have been encoded quoted-printable just fine.

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