foreign code contributions

[Christos Zoulas]

On Feb 23,  9:43am, gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org (Andrew John Hughes) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: foreign code contributions

Andrew, what MUA do you use that insists on encoding plain ascii text
to base-64? Isn't there a configuration setting that avoids this?

christos

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