>Dear colleagues,
>
>I need a quick tutorial on encoding errors.
>
>For instance,  I compose a message in MS Word, save it as a text
>file, close it, open it, select all, and copy-paste into Eudora to
>send the message to the moderated list.  As Eudora queues the
>message, I also always select "plain text only" option for sending.
>It looks great on the way out.  I was doing this quite successfully
>with NT List before, but NT List would simply reject any non-standard
>ASCII text (for instance, diacritical characters used in foreign
>languages, which was a real headache for me as moderator).
>
>When the outgoing message comes back for confirmation by me as
>moderator, hidden characters appear.  For instance "=20" at the end
>of lines or "=3D-=3D-=3D=" for what was keyed as simply
>"=-=-=-=-=-=-="  When the message returns after being distributed to
>the list, it comes back with  messages like "12 encoding errors were
>found. Turn on the 'Fetch' button in the icon bar and check mail
>again to retrieve a raw version" (This is in the Eudora window).

This is quoted-printable encoding.  There is an option in Eudora to
disable quoted-printable; it's probably in the 'Send' portion of the
'Settings' or 'Options' dialogue.

I hope this is useful to you.

Thanks,
--
Jacob Haller, Technical Support
L-Soft international, Inc
http://www.lsoft.com/