Bonnie (and everyone),
When you see posts with '=3D' etc it is because your email program is
encoding the message so that all the characters will get thru. The list
software doesn't decode anything and once it gets in digest your receiving
email program doesn't know to decode it so you see it in the digest.
To prevent it you need to restrict your message to the basic ascii
characters:
A-Za-z0-9`~!@#$%^&*()_-+=}{[]"':;/?><,.|\
Don't use any fancy characters that you don't see on a typewriter or pc
keyboard. Also, don't use any bold italics etc stuff that your word
processor can do. And don't let any line get longer than 70 characters.
Turn off quoted-printable (QP) encoding in your email program before sending
the message.
Jeff