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Also known as: uudecoding
The reverse of uuencode: reading the printable ASCII of an encoded post and writing back the original bytes. On multi-part uuencoded posts the sections had to be concatenated in the correct order first, with headers and signatures stripped by hand, which made recovery fragile. Modern newsreaders still include a decoder for archived material, but almost nothing new arrives in this format.
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