My thought on some of the peripheral subjects added to time stamps.
First, those funny characters. One sees them or not depending on the
computer used and the email client software used. The main source of the
funny characters derives from the byte address used by the font in use.
Eight bits allows 256 addresses and reserving zero for nulls leaves 255
addresses. Now all of our alphabet, punctuation, and specials like
dollar signs come in the first half of the byte table, ie zero through
127, for which the addresses are 0xxxxxxx - 01111111 (where x=0 or 1).
Characters assignee to these addresses render as a regular non-funny
character of all machines and softwares that I know of. The second half
of the byte table where the addresses run from 1xxxxxxx - 11111111 or 128
through 256 - this half of the byte table is where one finds the unusual
characters like umlaut u or grave e (you get the idea). As there are
many possible special characters in use, if in use minimally, one can get
great variability on a particular machine or client software or font used
whenever a second half table byte address is used. Recommendation - use
a common font in you client and avoid special characters (did this
character - � - come across as a bitten apple?).
Second is the use of html formatting. In some clients, Outlook I
suppose, html email is almost automatic and needs to be forceably
suppresssed in one's client. I keep the html rendering disabled because
not everybody uses an html capable email client. I wish others would do
the same thing.
End of rant.
>As far as all of the = signs, there are two things at work. One is a
>conversion of certain characters to make sure that they get through.
>I often see =20 which is a space, not sure why that's needed. The other
>is a system somewhere, not sure of where but I have seen it on some mail
>from the state legislature, that wants all lines to be no more than 70
>or so characters. The = sign indicates that a word was broken at that
>point. So maybe using a setting that limits line length will cure this.
>
John Ferman
Harriet Avenue
Kingfield Neighborhood
Minneapolis
Ward 10 Pct 10
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