> 
> Question:  About 1/2 the posts I recieve in the digest are 
> coming thru with every other line broken up and multiple 
> "20's" and "=" signs scattered throughout making them very 
> cumbersome to read....

This was posted last week to Lactnet.  Since there have been several
additional requests, I am posting it again and suggest that everyone file it
away somewhere for future reference!

Kathy

> The '=20' signs are actually part of quoted-printable encoding and 
> represent a carriage return (which is why they often appear at the end 
> of a line).
> 
> The reason they appear is either broken encoding or else the email 
> client being used to receive the message is unable to render it 
> properly.  The best way to prevent it from happening is to educate 
> your users to send only in US-ASCII and try to avoid using rich text 
> (fancy colours and
> formatting) or special symbols.
> 
> This usually means they'll have to check the configuration settings of 
> their email client to ensure plain-text is used.
> This web site might give you some useful suggestions 
> <http://www.expita.com/nomime.html>.  It also has an expended 
> discussion of how the Q-P encoding can appear in an email message 
> (look for 'Equal signs at end of lines' in the Microsoft section).

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