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Old 19-03-2007, 02:13 PM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.orchids
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Default Santa Barbara Orchid Fair March 2007 (5/5)
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:12:00 -0400, tennis maynard
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I'm curious as to why you took the step to
'encode them' in the first place.

Tennis,

Because the photographic image files contain non-ASCII characters, and
the fact that Usenet was conceived as a text-only medium, all posting
programs must encode binary files destined for Usenet, or the
non-ASCII data will be lost.

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