[Mailman-Developers] Proposal: option for UTF-8 emails without base64 encoding

[Cristóbal Palmer]

On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 09:01:32AM +0200, Petr Hroudný wrote:
> With base64, emails grow in size by 33 % and such emails
> are getting much higher spam
> scores since base64 is typically used by spammers to obfuscate the
> payload. There are of course
> much more reasons for not using base64 as the primary encoding method
> for UTF-8 email.

+1 for the proposed switch away from base64. This will be a boon for
ibiblio lists.

Thanks,
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Cristóbal Palmer
ibiblio.org systems administrator
cdla.unc.edu research assistant