Mailing lists, especially popular ones, tend to archive posts on various locations, which of course get indexed in search engines. Ever say things on there you’d rather not care to be searched? For instance, I think we all have had weird hits on our pages by some rather nasty stuff just because we used weird word combinations over the course of 12 paragraphs. Creepy. Well, when you’re talking on mailing lists of technical people, feel free to talk technically. FD has recently been throwing out some encoded playful messages, but the exercise is not all that bad. Anyone worth reading such things should know how to decode base64, for instance…

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