Fwd: FWIW

[Arnold Zwicky]

meant for the whole list:

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu>
> Date: June 30, 2009 6:37:02 AM PDT
> To: grendel.jjf at verizon.net
> Subject: Re: FWIW
>
>
> On Jun 29, 2009, at 9:40 PM, Seán Fitzpatrick wrote:
>
>> ---------------------- Information from the mail header
>> -----------------------
>> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>> Poster:       =?iso-8859-1?Q?Se=E1n_Fitzpatrick?= <grendel.jjf at VERIZON.NET
>> >
>> Subject:      FWIW
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> SF's name shows up correctly in the main "To:" line, but in the
> "Information from the mail header" it appears encoded as
>
>  =?iso-8859-1?Q?Se=Ein_Fitzpatrick?=
>
> (i don't know how either instance appears on your screen.)
>
> then in the body there's a reference to a student whose first name was
>
>  =93La=97a=94
>
> in the archives, this appears (presumably correctly) as
>
>  La-a
>
> a fair number of ADS-L e-mail messages have these "=" encodings in
> them.  mostly they're just ignorable, but sometimes i don't know how
> to decode them, and then i have to read things in the archive.
>
> can one of the technologically savvy ADS-Lers explain how this
> happens and how it can be fixed?
>
> arnold
>

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