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

Michael Current (mcurrent@carleton.edu)
Tue, 19 Nov 1996 11:04:08 -0600

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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>>>>

The way that happened to me was when I moved my FAQ maintenence to a
different text-editor where a "smart-quote" snuck into my FAQ. Just one
"binary" character (>128 ASCII?) caused my whole FAQ to be MIME-encoded as
you described. Took me a while (and the help of this list) to figure that
one out.

-Michael

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