I am a newcomer to this group and I receive the message digest from the list-server fine.  I can post messages fine.  But sometimes the messages look like the one below.  Why is this?  Are these messages encryted?  Or is it Belgian? :) How can I get them in ASCII (or EBCDIC :)) so I can read them.  Anyone any ideas.
Thanks.
Steve
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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:49:53 +0100 (CET)
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Subject: Re: [fpc-devel] EBCDIC (was On a port of Free Pascal to the IBM 370)
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The encoding you received the message in is base64. The encoding you receive a message in depends on the encoding the sender uses and what intermediate mail servers do (I received it in plain ASCII, in the mailing list archive it's also base64). There's nothing you can do about that that. All modern mail clients should be able to handle base64 encoding though. If your webmail client can't, I'm afraid you'll have to decode it yourself via e.g. http://www.opinionatedgeek.com/dotnet/tools/base64decode/

Jonas