> Can anyone tell me why half the posts archived are cluttered with " = > 20 " and other such garbel written every other line or so. Causes a lot > of distraction when trying read through posts. Take the following clip > from a random post..... Many mail programs use a method of "encoding" outgoing mail messages to protect things like space and newline characters by encoding them as an equals sign and then two hex numbers (like =20). Such mail messages are marked with a header at the top like this: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable and when your mail reader shows you the message, it knows to convert those sequences back so you don't have to see them. Their usage is very wide-spread but mostly hidden by your mail reader so you don't usually notice them. The problem is that when messages are concatenated together, like the digests, or when they are converted to HTML pages, like the archives, the conversion software doesn't always correctly detect the "quoted-printable" encodings and convert them back. This is a bug in the Mailman freeware program we use for our mailing lists and archives. The bug may well be fixed, though. Our version of Mailman is a bit downrev. Upgrading our copy of Mailman is already on my (fairly long) list of things to do, so hopefully that will help fix this problem (if not, I can add fixing it to the end of my long list :-) -andy
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