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TidBITS#515/31-Jan-00

Last week’s quiz sparked interest in a murky topic: what is the best encoding method to use when sending email attachments to Windows users? In response, Adam dons his hip waders to explain why the correct answer was the runner-up, and why the most common response wasn’t necessarily wrong either. We also look at Keyspan’s Digital Media Remote, release old versions of the Internet Starter Kit on the Web, and note the release of the SETI@home 2.0 client.

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E.T. Search Continues with SETI@home 2.0

E.T. Search Continues with SETI@home 2.0 -- The SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) project has updated its SETI@home client to version 2.0, adding security features, improving proxy support, and fixing bugs to the software that utilizes distributed computer processing power to analyze data from the Arecibo radio telescope

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Old Starter Kits Now Online

Old Starter Kits Now Online -- Last week a reader commented that he couldn't find the online versions of my Internet Starter Kit books (3rd edition Mac, 2nd edition Windows 3.1) at Macmillan Computer Publishing's site due to yet another reorganization

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Email Attachment Formats Explained

Okay, we may have confused a few people with last week's quiz, where we asked "What's the best encoding to use when sending a file to a Windows user via email?" I'll get to the correct answer shortly, but first let me explain the confusion. Terminology -- As I explained in "Macintosh Internet File Format Primer," in TidBITS-445, there are usually two actions that take place for Macintosh files to be transferred via email: binary packaging and transfer encoding