At 04:24 PM 2/18/99 -0800, Gill, Kathy so eloquently stated:
>Hi, George:
>
>There are two issues -- the characters in the sig line and the
soft line break.
>
>1) < =3D=3D >
>It is my understanding that this means that the character "sent"
>was not an ASCII character. For example, I have an "apple" in one
>of my sig lines -- which other Mac people can read -- but which
>isn't ASCII and *certainly* has no corresponding image on a PC
>keyboard <g>. So, for those non-Macs who get the mail -- their
>mail reader substitutes "gibberish" like this.
>
>
>2) < =20 > soft line return.
>This is a function of the e-mail client, I believe. UNIX, Mac and
>Wintel all have different "soft return" characters [when the line
>"wraps" around the window versus hitting the "return" key for a
>hard return]. The < = 20 > is a vestige of one of them that isn't
>"proper" code for the e-mail server. I think the culprit is
>Wintel, but I can't remember. And I did a net search and couldn't
>find the answer.
>
>
>See http://www.slashdot.org/ for a recent article on how MSFT
>products are sending along a lot of non-standard characters these
>days, even in the guise of ASCII.
>
Thanks Kathy. What's weird is it happens when it is sent to a
list server. I use Win95 and Eudora. That list server is
Postoffice. It goes out by me OK, but when my partner gets it
from the list server for final review we get these characters.
Thanks again.
George
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