Re: [Nmh-workers] A useless but interesting exercise: Design MH from scratch in the 2014 context

[Ken Hornstein]

>And despite the prevalence of QP and base64, I still find grep works
>quite well for me.  Anything text/* that is all base64 is almost always
>spam, so the base64 encoding is actually a 'feature' for me, ensuring
>the message doesn't generate a false positive match for what I am
>really looking for.

Sigh. I wish that was true for me, but it isn't.  Various mobile devices
used by co-workers default to base64 for text/plain.  Also, if you send
something with the high bit set to this mailing list, it "helpfully"
converts it to base64 for you.

--Ken