[pchelpers] Re: CD Rom plus symbols

The "=20" means "insert the ASCII character 20 hex", ie the space character.
This happens when the email program word-wraps lines prior to sending, to
allow the receiving program to reconstruct the format of the sender's
message (i.e. to put the lines back the way the originator meant them to
look). Similarly "=0D" means insert an ASCII carriage return, in other
words, a "hard" line break.

I suspect that John's mailserver program doesn't decode such characters if
they're part of the original message before re-posting to the list & they
get quoted themselves.

Jeremy

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Monday, 27 January 2003 12:16
To: pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [pchelpers] Re: CD Rom plus symbols


>I expect it is something to do with html formatting of the mail message and
>you are probably using outlook - it does do funny things and has a whole
>heap more stuff you can fiddle with, if you've got the time.

Now that is funny. A while back I was using IncrediMail and every post to
the
Pchelpers list had =0D at the end of every line.I  had to switch to Outlook
to make it stop.
And pchelpers was the only list that this happens to.

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