On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, M. LEBLANC wrote:

> 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.)

        This sounds like MIME/quoted-printable.  The "=3D" are hex
representations for spaces.  I don't recall what "=20" represents though.
If you do a search for the RFC that covers Quoted-Printable, I bet you'd
find a key for all of the codes.
        The strange thing is, MIME v1.0 should be capable of handling QP.
Hmmm...very strange.

Later!

Theo