Many people say that using base64 encoding for text attachments is a bug.

We have asked Pine developers about this and they said that the
highest priority for any attachment is that a MIME tool can recover
_exactly_ what was attached. They found that it was not possible to have
any reasonable assurance of getting a text attachment through intact
without BASE64 encoding. Therefore, they consider BASE64 encoding a
feature, not a bug, and do not plan to change Pine in this regard.

In addition to this, any file may be included using Control-R, and
lack of MIME-aware software is hopefully a short-lived problem.

This is even more true in year 2000 so I've decided that this
does not worth a wishlist bug anymore.


Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org>