At 05:54 PM 4/26/2005, Richard Knoppow wrote: > So, this proves the odd charactes above are caused by the >list machine converting Quoted-Printible to plain text. When >the special characters are sent without coding of any sort >they are reproduced properly as in my first test. The hash >characters in earlier posts were caused by my turning on >MIME and setting it for Base-64 as an option for _plain >text_ in OE. I will not test attachments here because they >should never be sent to the list. I have sent binary >attachments via e-mail with these settings and they came >through OK. Advise is to set your mail program so that it >sends mail to the list in plain text with no MIME encoding >at all if your mail program allows that. > >--- >Richard Knoppow >Los Angeles, CA, USA >dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx My mail system has an .ini file where you indicate the character set to send, in this case US-ASCII. Don Williams La Jolla, CA