Email attachments are a silly hack but it's now just considered routine and even reliable. Base64? We're seriously still transforming multi-megabyte binaries to alphanumeric encoding for transmission? multipart/alternative; boundary=[random garbage]? Just an absolute joke of a hack.
@tomw Terrible hacks which work consistently and are implemented pervasively; I'll take them 1,000x over vs. an elegant silo'd solution which will stop working sometime next year and only works in a few select products/platforms [which likely begin as free or inexpensive].
base64 encoding for the win! 👍
@whitemice Yeah... I'm more with you than the other sub-thread where people immediately started trying to use some totally separate system. It's just funny/mildly annoying that attachments are being transmitted in such an absurd way.
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(Apropos of other chat this morning)
Aviation comms same (‘ACARS’), evolved from ‘Type B’ messaging akin to telex. Heavy legacy of compatibility. Price per character is astronomical!!
