On 12-Oct-01 John Seago wrote:
Like Syd I have noticed =20 at the ends of the lines, ( or where the line ends were when I wrote the message). This only seems to occur on the list, (unless those I have emailed individually know otherwise). Messages between myself and Syd don't show the =20, at least at my end. It appears to me therefore, as the problem comes and goes, irrespective of my settings, that the =20 appears somewhere between Syd and I, as senders, and the list itself. I am sending through the 01986 (Bungay?) exchange, which in one of the exchanges between myself and BT over the quality of their service, they told me had yet to be updated. I am of the opinion that it is somewhere along the route that the =20 appears on the final display of the message.
Sorry I misunderstood.
What you're seeing here is the tip of a dreaded iceberg called "Quoted-Printable". This is one of the ways of encoding data in email messages so that characters (or bytes) with codes above 127 (decimal) get transmitted within the code range <=127.
The basic rule is that a character with code N (normally above 127) gets encoded as "=xy" where "xy" is the hexadecimal representation of the number N. The main exception is that the space " " gets encoded as "=20", since 20[hex]=32[dec] is the code for " "; and this will happen for spaces at the end of the line.
As to where this is being done, it's difficult to guess. Most probably, a mail router along the line does not like 8-bit encoding (the default of most people these days), and indeed from a purist point of view sending a message with high bits set on some characters does violate strict Internet email standards. Maybe you don't even have such characters anywhere in the message -- it could be enough to have anything but Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" in your headers, and the header Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit will very likely trigger it in a susecptible server.
This is most unlikely to have anything to do with the exchange you dial up through -- it's a question of which servers along the way handle the transmission of the email message.
Ted.
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