"M. LEBLANC" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>In January, there was a short thread about the mysterious "=20".

The short thread this time is full of errors.

>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 is all MIME-embedded junk.  The =20 is a space character.  The 3D=
is actually an =3D, the hex value for an ASCII/IA5 equals sign (=).

>The subscriber is no tyro and says he posted these the same way he has
>for years. Obviously *something* is different though!

He started using a different or updated mailer that inserts MIME junk.

These are the key indicators in the header:

>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?


It could be that one group was moderated and the moderator's software
cleaned up the junk.

Was there an X-Mailer header line?

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Daniel
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