Sean Barrett wrote:
Speaking of messages sent in weird, proprietary, unreadable formats, what in the name of Babbage was this?
Neither proprietary nor unreadable, I'd guess. It's all text, and I managed to understand most of it. Weird, however, I'll accept.
BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 N:Montaig;Azure FN:Azure Montaig EMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:azuremontaig@yahoo.com REV:20030731T075720Z END:VCARD
So, this person's surname is "Montaig", and their full name is "Azure Montaig". Their Internet email addres is azuremontaig@yahoo.com. (One must admire this protocol -- if that's what it's doing! -- for recognising that not all email is over the Internet.) This revision is dated 2003 July 31, but I don't grasp the "T075720Z" bit.
And all of this comprises something called a "VCARD", to be interpreted according to version 2.1 of that protocol. If I wanted to know more, doubtless I'd look that up.
-- Toby