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On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 8:25 PM, Simon Waters wrote: > Agreed there is little advantage, but less encoding means more email would be > readable text files, rather than the way many mail clients like to base64 encode > messages which could be plain text if sent as 8bit. True, but that's not something an average user would have to worry about. Mail clients are perfectly capable of displaying emails encoded in base64 (or quoted-printable, which can be somewhat human-readable). But if you're a sysadmin and/or developer, it's quite convenient if the email file itself is plain text. So that you can just inspect headers, MIME parts etc. in your favourite text editor and don't have to use some kind of mail-editing software. Martijn. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq