Re: Why is = being replaced with =3D in my FAQ

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> For some strange reason spurious characters are appearing in the FAQ it
> appeasr in the newsgroup. Eg. <<<<== SAVE THIS MESSAGE NOW ==>>>> appears as
>
> <<<<=3D=3D SAVE THIS MESSAGE NOW =3D=3D>>>>
>
> Now, 3D is hexidecimal for 61, which is the ASCII code for and equals sign
> '=' which is what is meant to be there. But what is making this change and
> why. I have checked it at an ASCII level on my computer, and the codes are
> not present when I send the FAQ to the FAQ server - the '=' signs are stored
> as a normal ASCII 61. But when it appears in the newsgroup the extra
> characters have been inserted.

The email program you are using to send your FAQ to
faq-server@rtfm.mit.edu for posting is MIME encoding it. Look in its
configuration to see if you can tell it to *STOP* doing that unless
you request it. ("quotable-printable" is the encoding it is using, I
believe; the other MIME encoding people may be familiar with is
base64, conceptually similary to uuencode.)

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