Phil,

So if you reply to a message that has = signs, will your message be filled 
with them as well?  My guess is that it will.

Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 22:02
Subject: A Tip On How I Post Without Equal Signs


> If I post a message by calling up the blind-hams email address for posting
> directly to the list, I have equal signs just like many of you do.  I have
> learned, on the other hand, if I reply, using someone's posting, deleting
> their text, changing the subject line, and if necessary, removing their
> email address in the "to line" with blind-hams, I can write my message, as 
> I
> am right now, and the listserver recognizes my email as a copy to reply,
> that is, it thinks I am replying to someone on the list but I'm not 
> because
> this message is Tom's last post.  After doing what I just described, there
> generally are no equal signs.  Why?  Because, as I said before, it isn't 
> the
> posting of the individual, it is a line in the header that controls the
> blind-hams mailing list.  That command line removes all junk characters 
> but
> replying as I do, using someone else's post, makes the listserver think it
> is a simple reply in plain text.  Try it; you'll like it.
>
> Phil.
> K0NX
>