On Tue, 11 Jul 2000 09:44:16 -0400, Lenny Huntley <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by cits-gw1.moody.af.mil You are using un-encoded 8-bit characters in your message text (and in your Subject: line (Linda Chaé) and this mail gateway took it upon itself to convert your incompatible email into an acceptable foramt (quoted-printable encoding) which is a 7bit-safe representation of 8-bit characters. the QP encoding does the =3D among other things. This is normal.