I have seen these codes substituted for normal ascii characters as long as
I've been using email. It appears almost random and apparrently has to do
with differing standards in how character sets are translated and packed for
transmission. My experience so far on this list is that it's not much worse
than many others I'm on.

Yes, it's a conspiracy, the universe most certainly does "play dice!"

The only good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose
from.!
Tom Fowle WA6IVG
On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 05:29:52PM -0500, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Hey Wayne, If I knew how to turn off the symbols, I would have taken care of 
> it!  It has been a discussion on whether the List is doing this or up to 
> each indedividual.  You make it sound like that I added the simbols on 
> perpous, sure fooled you.    KB2YAA
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Wayne Genz
> Sent: Monday, January 04, 2016 4:00 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: possible news article
> 
> Hello, can everyone please stop using special characters when typing an
> Email. I find it very rude and unacceptable. If you have something to say
> that you don't want everyone to know, then phone the people you want to talk
> to. Thank you, Wayne wa2usm
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Monday, January 04, 2016 3:11 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: possible news article
> 
> Hi all,
> A friend wishes to write an article about ham radio and was addressing =
> this to the general public.  He was wondering if there might be a source =
> available to the general public on how one can find if there any ham = radio
> operators in their area.  This would be for a person who is = preparing an
> emergency kit and wanted to know if there is any hams in = his area in case
> he has to notify family that he is OK.  I thought the = ARRL would be a
> source, but there isn=E2=80=99t a search by zip codes.  = I know that there
> is a zip code search under the advance search page on = any of the callsign
> data bases.  Gary KB2YAA