FWIW

[Randy Alexander]

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 12:12 AM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> > a fair number of ADS-L e-mail messages have these "=" encodings in
> > them. Â 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?

This has been discussed before on the list a few times.  In a
technologically simplified nutshell, it happens because odd characters
or formatting are being used in "rich formatting" mode, as opposed to
"plain text" mode.

The simple solution is for users to send posts only in plain text mode.

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Randy Alexander
Jilin City, China
My Manchu studies blog:
http://www.bjshengr.com/manchu

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