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Date:         Mon, 28 Feb 2005 14:53:30 -0800
Reply-To:     Aleksandr Milewski <zandr@ASPERASOFT.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Aleksandr Milewski <zandr@ASPERASOFT.COM>
Subject:      Re: NVC - Weird characters in post
In-Reply-To:  <BE48E67E.8A93%camper@tactical-bus.info>
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jimt wrote:

> Actually (=0D) is an upper level ascii character being mistranslated by the > email reader. Somebody is inserting hard returns in there email instead of > using the wrap feature or the program they are using assumes all wraps are > hard returns. I know hotmail and a few other used to do that.

Well, not upper level. It's a 0x0D, or 13 decimal, or ^M.

It's a carriage return.

This is not about using hard returns or not, but rather going back and forth between HTML and non-html mail readers. If you ever needed confirmation that HTML mail was evil, this it.


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