[Dragaera] The Jenoine and humans elsewhere

[Maximilian Wilson]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt at kithrup.com> wrote:
> I'm reading these messages with "mail" on a BSD UNIX account that
> reads ASCII only.
>
>
> Dorothy J. Heydt
> Vallejo, California
> djheydt at kithrup.com

I think it has something to do with the content-encoding. Scott's
post, in pure text form, looks something like this:

From: "Scott Schultz" <scott at cjhunter.com>
To: "dragaera list" <dragaera at dragaera.info>
References: <38aa89f30810051124p53753a63v78a21b4fc5ad0c6a at mail.gmail.com><48E91028.536A5762 at ix.netcom.com><2ddbda5f0810051211w16b191ecwe4208f948fe9b335 at mail.gmail.com><48E91394.3EDDDCEF at ix.netcom.com><2ddbda5f0810051232x6dab4e06i39bfa5b6843f35e1 at mail.gmail.com><1223235423.11241.4.camel at jill.exit.com><2ddbda5f0810051248x1be76f7aid119f8aeb64832b6 at mail.gmail.com>
	<48F1187E020000A000017892 at gwdomain.albion.edu>
List-Id: Steven Brust's world of Dragaera <dragaera-dragaera.info>
List-Unsubscribe:
<http://lists.dragaera.info/options.cgi/dragaera-dragaera.info>,
	<mailto:dragaera-request at lists.dragaera.info?subject=unsubscribe>
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed"
Sender: dragaera-bounces at lists.dragaera.info
Errors-To: dragaera-bounces at lists.dragaera.info

PiBJZiB3ZSBhcmUgdG8gYXNzdW1lIHRoYXQgdGhlIEVhc3Rlcm5lcnMvaHVtYW5zIGNhbWUgdG8gRHJhZ2FlcmEgYmVmb3JlCj4gdGhlIEplbm9pbmUg4oCUIG9yIGF0IGxlYXN0IHdpdGhvdXQgdGhl
IGFpZCBvZiB0aGUgSiDigJQgdGhlbiB3aGF0IG9mCj4gRWFydGgvdGhlIHBsYWNlIHRoZXkgY2Ft
ZSBmcm9tPyBIYXZlIHRoZSBKIHF1YXJhbnRpbmVkIERyYWdhZXJhIOKAlCBhcmUKPiB0aGV5IGF3
[snip]

Notice that it's base-64 encoding, whereas the other posts that I
checked are 7-bit (and thus legible in plain-text format). Apparently
Scott's email uses a slightly more compressed form of text. I wouldn't
have noticed if Dorothy hadn't mentioned it because Gmail does decode
base64 text. Interesting.

-Max

-- 
"The presentation or 'gift' of the Holy Ghost simply confers upon a
man the right to receive at any time, when he is worthy of it and
desires it, the power and light of truth of the Holy Ghost, although
he may often be left to his own spirit and judgment." --Joseph F.
Smith (manual, p. 69)

"Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my
brethren, ye have done it unto me."