[softwarelist] Re: =20

In message <38f112054e.michael@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
          michael talibard <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I used to be able to post my contributions here, or
> to write emails, that looked much the same when they
> arrived as they did here. But suddenly, there is a rash
> of intrusions of  =20.  Does anyone know why?

If you look at your message <7fac11054e.michael@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [1],
you'll see you used a non-ASCII character for your smiley's nose.
Messenger-Pro then MIME-encoded it as =8F so that it fitted into a
7-bit character space [2]. In MIME encoding, a newline gets
represented as =20, pound sign as =A3 (see your
<227d60014e.michael@xxxxxxxxxxxx>) and the = sign as =3D.

In summary, it was all of your doing :-) Stick to ASCII and things
should work properly. Not all mail servers are guaranteed to cope with
8-bit messages so MIME is used to encode them safely.

[1] Shift-click it in Messenger Pro and the message will appear in
    your message viewer.
[2] Probably not the precise term.
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