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News Group - 31 May 2006 17:24 GMT

Hi,

I use Outlook 2003.

I received a message with the following subject: Become a member and you
could win £2500!

As this e-Mail evaded my anti-spam rules, I checked the message header and
found the subject to be:

Subject:
=?Windows-1252?B?QmVjb21lIGEgbWVtYmVyIGFuZCB5b3UgY291bGQgd2luIKMyNTAwIQ==?=

The only part of this I recognise is the character set identifier
Windows-1252.

Can anyone tell me how the subject in the message header and the subject
displayed in my inbox are different?

Thanks.

Colin

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Diane Poremsky [MVP] - 31 May 2006 18:05 GMT

outlook can decode it for viewing, rules can't.

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> Hi,
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> Colin

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News Group - 31 May 2006 18:33 GMT

Hi Diane,

Thanks for the very quick response.

Is this some form of encryption?

Colin.

| outlook can decode it for viewing, rules can't.
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| > Subject:

=?Windows-1252?B?QmVjb21lIGEgbWVtYmVyIGFuZCB5b3UgY291bGQgd2luIKMyNTAwIQ==?=

| > The only part of this I recognise is the character set identifier
| > Windows-1252.
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| > Colin

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Brian Tillman - 01 Jun 2006 00:18 GMT

> Is this some form of encryption?

It's a different Latin character code page.
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/sbcs/1252.mspx

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