The incidences of posts submitted to BEE-L with dangling equal signs at the
end of each line has been on the increase. The dangling equal signs are
actually incorrectly deciphered control characters for a "carriage
return/line feed". In most mailers this can be corrected by sending
submissions to BEE-L as "Plain Text". The path to configure mail as plain
text can be found in most mailers as:
Tools >-> Options >-> Send
and then choosing "Plain Text"
I do not know ALL mailers, but searching around in the "Send" configurations
should yield a radio button which can be turned on the send submissions as
"Plain Text".