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On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Garth Gillespie wrote:
> The mysterious things in question are representations of formatting from
> Word Processors.
>
> "=20" is a line feed and "3D-" is something I am not aware of. This
> happened to us with some text that was written in word and just cut and
> pasted into Eudora. Not every email program sees these things though.
> Hope this helps.
the 3d is ascii 191. (High ascii graphics symbol) Also it
can be ascii 196 as well.
>
> Garth
> Webmaster Computer Currents
> www.currents.net
>
> At 17:05 2/19/97 EST, you wrote:
> °Hi all. :-)
> °
> °In January, there was a short thread about the mysterious "=20".
> °
> °I've looked over the other answers in this thread via the lstown-l
> °archives and am still stumped.
> °
> °I have a subscriber who's posted an important series of articles,
> °which he posts annually.
> °They came through with many in the series of 6 articles peppered
> °throughout with "=20" and "3D=". (no quotes of course ...) The
> °=20 appear at the end of lines, while the =3D appear in strings,
> °at the top of some paragraphs. (As in: =3D=3D=3D=3D etc.)
> °
> °The subscriber is no tyro and says he posted these the same way he has
> °for years. Obviously *something* is different though!
> °
> °A non-subscriber posted a couple of these to usenet as a test. They
> °appeared both on usenet and arriving via the gateway for approval with
> °the same garbage, so it has nothing to do with Listserv(R). :-)
> °
> °Here are examples of the header lines appearing on both those parts
> °that posted without the junk, and those that posted with the junk, when
> °posted by the subscriber.
> °They look the same to me.
> °
> °>Subject: Waiting For A Miracle -- part 1 of 6
> °>From: xxxx xxxxxxx <[log in to unmask]>
> °>Date: 1997/02/07
> °>Message-Id: <[log in to unmask]>
> °>Sender: The Bob Dylan Discussion List <[log in to unmask]
> °EDU
> °>
> °>Comments: Gated by [log in to unmask]
> °>Approved-By: subscriber <[log in to unmask]>
> °>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=X-Roman8
> °>Mime-Version: 1.0
> °>Newsgroups: rec.music.dylan
> °
> °This posted to HWY61-L and was gated to usenet's r.m.d. with
> °no =20
> °no =3D=3D=3D
> °
> °
> °
> °>Subject: Waiting For A Miracle -- part 6 of 6
> °>From: xxxx xxxxxxx <[log in to unmask]>
> °>Date: 1997/02/09
> °>Message-Id: <[log in to unmask]>
> °>Sender: The Bob Dylan Discussion List <[log in to unmask]
> °EDU
> °>
> °>Comments: Gated by [log in to unmask]
> °>Approved-By: subscriber <[log in to unmask]>
> °>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=X-Roman8
> °>Mime-Version: 1.0
> °>Newsgroups: rec.music.dylan
> °
> °This posted to HWY61-L and was gated to usenet's r.m.d. with
> °plenty of =20
> °plenty of =3D=3D=3D
> °
> °
> °
> °Any ideas? The Mime-Version: 1.0 and a switch that need to be reset,
> °maybe?
> °The Content-Type: text/plain; charset=X-Roman8 perhaps?
> °
> °Thanks in advance for any ol' clue. :-)
> °
> °
> °Maureen :-)
> °
> °
>
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