Hi Group,

This issue of extraneous characters has been discussed at length on this 
list in the past.  I will briefly summarize for the new comers.

I actually communicated with the list owner who was a bit put out over 
my insistence that the issue is over list server configuration. Others 
running the same software as is used on this list disagree. Not running 
a server myself, I'll just leave the debate hang as such.

First of all, this is the only list out of 17 that I am presently 
subscribed to that has this issue with extraneous characters.

The issue definitely has to do with the way that this list mail software 
processes HTML/Rich Text formatting used by most modern mail programs.  
One possible solution that works for many people is to switch your 
outgoing mail format for this list to plain text.  It has worked for me 
in Outlook Express, Windows Live Mail and Thunderbird and for a few 
friends of mine who are using Outlook Mail from the Microsoft Office 
Suite.    For some reason, best known only to some people, this switch 
to plain text for e-mails sent to this list does not work.  By rights it 
should.  I don't know why it doesn't work for some people.

The whole list management of this list is very free form and there seems 
to be a minimal concern for such issues, so I guess the penultimate 
solution is that if you really don't like it, then unsubscribe.

That is the issue and discussion as stated at length on this for years now.


On 1/4/2016 10:31 PM, Wayne Genz wrote:
> Hello Tom, can you explain all of them to me? I hate being in the dark when
> there is something being said and I have to assume a meaning. There is that
> word again, I don't like being the first part of that word at all. I don't
> want to make anyone else feel that they are either. If you can and are
> willing can you help me. Wayne wa2usm
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Tom Fowle
> Sent: Monday, January 04, 2016 10:03 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: changed subject: email "codes"
>
> 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