The freelists software is partly to blame for this. Another thing is that the email sender might think to turn off Quoted Printable in the send settings of his email client. Those two together, should cut out the signs from the composer's messages. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 4:24 PM Subject: Re: new file manager Ah. Okay. Sorry to say, this message is only one of a bunch of posts over the past couple of days that have been full of garbage characters. And someone usually chimes in with advice either to stop whining or to make sure all one's settings are plain text, or something. But that's * we get these garbage characters, because either our email programs, or the listserv, or both, are set to strip away HTML or rich text coding from incoming emails, and in the process some residue of the HTML seems to have been left behind. Not meaning anything political by this. Anyway, if people would make a practice of sending only plain text messages to blind mailing lists, this probably wouldn't happen. If someone here is more technically savvy than I and sees a mistake in my comprehension of this phenomenon, please correct me. Daniel ----- Original Message ----- >From: "Jack Lowe" <akronjack1982@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 7:51 AM Subject: Re: new file manager Hi Daniel, The = signs were what I was referring to. Otherwise the message was fine. ----- Original Message ----- >From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 10:49 AM Subject: Re: new file manager Just for another point of view, I didn't have much trouble reading the message, at least not because of missing articles or whatever may have caught your notice, Jack,. Maybe that's because I have a number of friends from the former Soviet Union, and, as a result, am so familiar with these lapses (Russian language uses no "a," "the," etc.). But having to listen to Jaws speaking all those equals signs isn't much fun. Daniel (who wonders if the product name Yarrow reflects someone's enthusiasm for the I Ching, the Chinese Book of Changes. If so, that's sort of cool. ----- Original Message ----- >From: "Jack Lowe" <akronjack1982@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 5:53 AM Subject: Re: new file manager Man was this message hard to read! Jack ----- Original Message ----- >From: "Yarrowsoft team" <subscriber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 7:39 PM Subject: Re: new file manager Hello!=20 Dear David, all necessary information you can read on page of = registration: http://yarrowsoft.com/reg.htm Dear Judith ! Thank you for your e-mail.=20 I am blind user and I use a computer during 10 years. Unfortunately till now I not Has met the file manager which satisfied my = high requirements. Today I can present result of my work - the file = manager Yarrow Commander. Whether you can name the file manager which = would surpass Yarrow Commander in convenience for blind users? best regards, Vladimir Yushko YarrowSoft team.=20 ----- Original Message -----=20 >From: Judith Bron <jbron@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 6:45 PM Subject: Re: new file manager I just read this entire email to the end and went on the euro site. = Since I'm the tecky dunce I don't know what one would need this software for. Judith ----- Original Message ----- >From: "David Grossoehme" <davegross1@xxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 9:11 PM Subject: Re: new file manager > John: I also went to their web site without any problems. It was = kind of > surprising to not be able to find anymore information that what had = been in > the message. What was a bigger surprise was the fact that this = product > could be purchased but no price was given. > YourFriend > Dave > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John O. Carvalho" <n1sea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 12:49 PM > Subject: Re: new file manager > > > > Hi to all, > > I just wanted to let you know that I did go to this web sight > > http://yarrowsoft.comm. > > To tell you that my computer got frozen & I had to reboot. > > I'm not sure if this sight is working or not,I just thought to let someone > > know. > > John Carvalho > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Yarrowsoft team" <subscriber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 9:55 PM > > Subject: new file manager > > > > > > Hello! > > > > We glad represent to you our new product: Yarrow Commander - file = =3D > > manager Specially developed for blind users. > > Yarrow Commander is an Explorer-style file manager for accessing = your =3D > > computer and proven to work with all Braille and speech screen = readers =3D > > under all versions > > of Windows. Those who are familiar with Windows but are only just = =3D > > starting to use it with speech or Braille will find the transition = =3D > > simple and effective. > > Yarrow Commander is a file manager for Windows, a tool like the > > Explorer or file manager, which comes with windows. But Yarrow = Commander =3D > > uses a > > different approach: it has two fixed windows, which makes copying = files =3D > > much > > easier.=3D20 > > > > Here some key features of Yarrow Commander: > > + full compatibility with Jaws (screen reader from Freedom = Scientific) > > + scripts For Jaws are not included > > + convenient and multifunctional files list=3D20 > > + manageable selection of files in list > > + context menu from Windows explorer=3D20 > > + status bar with information about selected files and folders > > + folders in easly managed treeview > > + built - in text editor=3D20 > > + powerful multi-renameing tool > > + font-selection dialog for visually impaired users=3D20 > > + manageable dialog boxes=3D20 > > + and much more... > > > > For more information please visit our web site: > > http://yarrowsoft.com > > > > You can also download(658 Kb) our file manager: > > http://yarrowsoft.com/download/yarcomsetup.exe > > > > If you have any questions, please send your question by E-mail: > > support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > best regards, > > Vladimir Yushko > > YarrowSoft team. > > > > > > -- > > To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to > > jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject = line. > > Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw > > > > If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the = list, or > > the > > way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. 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