I forgot to mention, I did send a note through the ABA feedback about
the issue, so hopefully it's only a temporary problem for their site.

Josh Adams
Lynnwood, WA

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 8:02 PM, Josh Adams <xjoshx at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Tweets,
> Is anyone seeing the "Gobbledygood" messages from anything other than
> the ABA's Birdingonthe.net replacement, birding.aba.org? I.E. is
> anyone seeing this issue when checking using their phone's email
> program, a webmail site (gmail, hotmail, etc.), a program run on their
> computer (outlook, etc.)? It appears to me that it's an issue with
> Android smartphones sending out something in a way that's slightly
> non-standard that trips up the ABA's site.
>
> The Gobbledygook is actually the original text of the message encoded
> in base64 which is used by email programs to send attachments and
> other data beyond the normal "plaintext." If you ever find yourself
> with a siting encoded this way that you'd like to read immediately you
> can paste the "junk" in the bottom box of the below website and it
> will convert it back to english:
> http://webnet77.com/cgi-bin/helpers/base-64.pl
>
> You can also try these alternatives to the ABA's site, which seem to
> be handling the messages just fine:
> http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/pipermail/tweeters/
> http://digest.sialia.com/?rm=one_list;id=141
>
> Josh Adams
> Lynnwood, WA (But currently in Silicon Valley, CA where I managed to
> pick up Baltimore Oriole, Rose-Breasted Grosbeak, and a dozen more
> life birds while working a 70 hour week)