Klarinet Archive - Posting 000476.txt from 1996/12

From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.com>
Subj: Re: Coded Messages?
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 00:51:41 -0500

Donald Yungkurth wrote:
> =

> >From time to time messages which are apparently coded like the followi=
ng
> appear on Klarinet, at least as I receive it in digest form. Is this
> something convertible to English? Could someone explain to me what thi=
s is =

> Content-Type: application/ms-tnef
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

This gibberish is a MIME encoding (Multipurpose Internet Mail
Extensions) that Microsoft Mail has. Internally on a network MS Mail
sends in binary; outside it sends in ASCII. It contains a mail header
and the message. Some gateways strip it off outgoing messages
before it hits the Internet; others don't. It can be safely ignored.

Translated, it reads:
binary gibberish (except to MS Mail ;^). The one I looked at had the
following strings in it:

Klarinet - Clarinettist's Network
SMTP
KLARINET@-----.BITNET
SMTP
KLARINET@-----.BITNET
'Klarinet - Clarinettist's Network'
SMTP:KLARINET@-----.BITNET
IPM.Microsoft Mail.Note
Music Minus One
7082B5973F55D011AD44444553540000
Music Minus One
=D1=F0DDEST
SMTP
illusion@-----.ca
HAVEANYOFYOUUSEDTHEMUSICMINUSONERECORDINGS?WHATDOYOUTHINKOFTHEM?LYNN
LZFu

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Mark Charette Webmaster, http://sneezy.mika.com and maintainer of
Mika Systems, Inc the Clarinet Info Pages,
charette@-----.com/clarinet