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.

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 :-)
°
°