Well...

I'm not sure what you mean. I noticed emails went out without any extra
characters, but that the "=" at the ends of lines, plus some weird character
codes (e.g. 09, 20, etc) where in the archive, so I assumed they were part of
the listserv archive formatting (I am frankly clueless with some of this). Part
of the reason I made this assumption is that emails would come through listserv
with no extra characters, and web interface would not display these characters
in the archives, but they are in the archive file itself...

But, are you saying that the 09's, ='s, etc., are codes from the email clients?
If so, is there anyway of preventing these codes (we send in Plain Text and
still get them) or of stripping them out systemically from the archive?

Basically, we grab individual postings from the archive, import them into SQL,
and that's a major portion of our site's content. So, lots of weird codes and
characters are a major problem.

Again, all help is very welcome and appreciated.

Thanks,
Greg


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In particular, are you talking about the long lines of
=========(etc) that appear to separate the messages (don't
know if that's something Listserv-y or some mailbox format I
haven't heard of), or about the occasional "=" at the end of
a line (which is part of what quoted-printable encoding does
and is something email clients do, rather than Listserv)?