On Jan 21, 2005, at 9:47 AM, Lepre, James wrote:
Jim, I don't know what goes on with my posts, but for some reason, wherever I wrote an equal (=) sign, something somewhere tacked "3D" (the ASCII hex code for '=') after it. ...
Though mail is two-dimensional, you may sometimes see the "3D". :-) That's MIME encoding of character sets, where the mail package which generated the email encoded it as "quoted-printable", where various special characters are encoded in hex. You see this in archived postings because you are then looking at the data in its raw form, where the archive site did not decode the mail but rather stored it in its original form. www.adsm.org tends to store in raw form, while http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ (which I prefer) tends to decode the mail before storing such that it is fully readable.
Richard Sims
