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Subject:	Re: Cream of the parts crop currently at GoB - Lions Gate Models [Brickbay}
Newsgroups:	lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade
Date:	Fri, 15 Jun 2001 22:22:01 GMT
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Daniel Crichton wrote in message ... > The =3D and other encoded characters are to do with having non-US ASCII > characters in the message; the sending mail client uses "quoted-printable" > encoding to turn an = to =3D, a carriage return to =20, and other encodings > of non alpha-numeric characters. If the message has the correct • Content-Type > and Content-Transfer-Encoding headers when it's read by email or news it > will look fine, but if not then the message will have these encoding • visible > as the reader doesn't know that the content needs "decoding". A web browser <snip> Thanks Dan. I had worked out that the oddness was due to = and space characters getting encoded, but not why. What baffles me is that the auction announcement postings I am doing exactly the same way are fine - the equals signs in them are not getting encoded. Maybe there's something else in these Brickbay postings which is a non-US character which is not in the auction postings. Kevin ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Craftsman Lego Kits & Custom models: http://www.lionsgatemodels.com Brickbay Lego parts store: http://www.brickbay.com/store.asp?p=Kevinw1 eBay Lego auctions: http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/kevinw1/ The Guild of Bricksmiths: http://www.bricksmiths.com Personal Lego Web page: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/kwilson_tccs/lego.html Kevin

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		Re: Cream of the parts crop currently at GoB - Lions Gate Models [Brickbay}
Kevin... Maybe your Canadian server is adding 'eh?' to every sentence without you knowing it?? And maybe the US servers that Brickbay & LUGNET run on are choking on it?? :-) <g,d&rlh> Paul Sinasohn, who knows perfectly well that the vast majority of (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

		Re: Cream of the parts crop currently at GoB - Lions Gate Models [Brickbay}
"Kevin Wilson" <kwilson_tccs@compuserve.com> wrote in message news:GEzsso.KnK@lugnet.com... (...) auction (...) equals (...) these (...) Have you got a copy of one of the postings? I can take a look and tell you what character(s) is causing the (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jun-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)

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		Re: Cream of the parts crop currently at GoB - Lions Gate Models [Brickbay}
"Kevin Wilson" <kwilson_tccs@compuserve.com> wrote in message news:GExF6n.5E2@lugnet.com... (...) show (...) The =3D and other encoded characters are to do with having non-US ASCII characters in the message; the sending mail client uses (...) (23 years ago, 15-Jun-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)

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