I'm sending this message through an Exchange server, using Outlook, and I believe it will remain in plain text (you can check for yourself.) All you have to do is choose the "plain text" option, which is pretty easy. Exchange will send whatever format you want; it's the client that determines it. The web interface, OWA, will not send plain text, but that is not due to the Exchange server itself. Melissa -----Original Message----- From: LISTSERV list owners' forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Peter C.S. Adams Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 8:11 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: turn off quoted-printable? John Cunniff <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > when I subscribe to a different mailing lists, am on a digest format, > I gets a lot of =20's, too. I don't care about it. It's the way it is. It's the way it is because Microsoft is a virtual monopoly on the desktop and they think they're a monopoly in the server space, too, so they just write their own rules. I'll skip the lengthy rant about what a dumb decision it was, but my university bought MS Exchange. The web mail system makes it *IMPOSSIBLE* to send plain text email! I have been told that it's possible to do with Outlook, but it's not easy. If people would just use well designed mail systems, they wouldn't inflict this garbage on the rest of us. -- Peter C.S. Adams Director of Information and Communication Technologies College of Public and Community Service, UMass Boston http://www.cpcs.umb.edu/~Peter