Why do SOG messages often come out slightly scrambled? I am talking about lines ending with =20 or what is presumably a Pound sign being replaced by =A3 and suchlike. This does not happen on other lists and I suspect it has to do with the introductory line which reads:- X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable etc. If so, can the autoconverter be be persuaded to try harder? Graham Pollett

Graham Pollett wrote: >Why do SOG messages often come out slightly scrambled? >I am talking about lines ending with =20 or what is presumably a Pound sign >being replaced by =A3 and suchlike. >This does not happen on other lists and I suspect it has to do with the >introductory line which reads:- X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable >etc. If so, can the autoconverter be be persuaded to try harder? Rootsweb has several servers to run their 30,000 lists each server with thousands of lists, each one treated the same way - apart from list options. Therefore any problems will not apply just to the SoG, but to perhaps 5,000 lists. It is more likely that the problem is with the list members, or more likely a particular member who uses an unusual email program or who is using the wrong options, or as Dave Dobbing suggest - a word processor. This would explain why you see this only on the SoG list. However, I must add that I have seen this problem on other lists and have not noticed the SoG list to be more prone to this. I guess that depends on which other lists we look at. Regards, Geoff Geoffrey T. Stone, SoG Mailing List Administrator. lists@sog.org.uk http://www.sog.org.uk On-line retail shopping? Use http://www.buy.at/genealogists our affiliate shop and SoG gains funds at no cost to you.

Geoffrey wrote: > It is more likely that the problem is > with the list > members, or more likely a particular member who uses an unusual email > program or who is using the wrong options, or as Dave Dobbing suggest > - a word processor. Geoff, My experience is that this is caused by senders who use quoted-printable for their transmission and when received by receivers using certain email clients, in particular Eudora. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoted_printable Quoted printable forces line breaks at 76 characters, which is why you see the =20 symbols. Peter Walker