Martin,

Those numbers are ASCII codes.  For example, 20 is an ASCII space.  From 
what I've heard, these numbers appear when the listserve is presented with a 
line longer than 60 characters.  Unfortunately, I don't think there's 
anything any of us can do about it except to grin and bear it.  I've heard 
various fixes suggested, but none of them seem to work very well, so I have 
to believe there's really no solution except to move the list to another 
domain.

Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin McCormick" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 12:13
Subject: Re: Why Is Unit Sending Trash?


> Wow! That example is the worst I've ever seen or the
> best example depending on how you look at it. I see a lot of
> emails on this list in which there is some sort of binary
> garbage at the end of each line and in places where someone may
> have been being imphatic. The garbage usually contains an = or
> equals symbol and the number 20 frequently but not always
> follows. I don't know if it has anything to do with Outlook
> Exchange or what, but it is an attempt by something in either
> the mail list processing software or our individual mail reader
> clients to make sense out of 8-bit characters which shouldn't be
> there.
>
> I am on some mailing lists where you see people from all
> over the plannet writing in and never once do you see =20 or
> anything similar.
>
> This list has a number of members whose messages contain
> some garbage like that, but not everybody, so I have not really
> figured out what causes it. I know I'd never shed a tear if I
> never saw it again. I also know that some have tried to adjust
> their mailer output to stop it and have had a lot of trouble, so
> nothing personal is meant here.
>
> 73 WB5AGZ
>