[bookport] Re: Equals Signs
- From: "albert griffith" <albertgriffith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 11:55:54 -0400
Now that we know about them, we can just disregard =.
----- Original Message -----
From: "ROB MEREDITH" <rmeredith@xxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 9:04 AM
Subject: [bookport] Re: Equals Signs
> Let me clear up some of this equals sign stuff:
>
> Deaf ears? Not a chance. We don't like the equals signs any more than =
> anyone else. There simply doesn't appear to be anything we can do about =
> them.
>
> Part of the dilemma is that no one knows the source of the problem. I =
> suspect that it is the fault of the freelists.org software, since we have
=
> not seen this anywhere else, and we have been using our email client =
> software for a long time. And yes, we do see the equals signs in our =
> replies to the list.
>
> In summary, I see it this way -- the equal signs are much less annoying =
> than the advertisements we had over at TopicA.
>
> Rob Meredith
>
>
> >>> drlieser@xxxxxxx 06/20/04 04:21PM >>>
> Dave:
>
> I don't know that the problem we're seeing with the equals signs in most
> list messages is falling on deaf ears. I think it's some kind of =
> formatting
> thing of the email software, and that the people at APH are not seeing =
> them
> as we are. I've experienced similar things in other situations almost =
> like
> this through the years. For whatever reason, HTML, RTF, and the like are
> not quite standardized enough for everyone to pull in the exact same =
> thing.
>
> To the APH workers: Would you please try all kinds of combinations of
> sending to and from perhaps personal email addresses, anything to see if =
> you
> can replicate what we're often getting? Some of the lines end with =
> "=3D20",
> while most do not have the number following the =3D sign.
>
> Dale
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