Hello Mike!

 you wrote to All:

 ME> Since Joes message, I have noticed this in the other messages coming
 ME> from fidonet, so I suspect it is happening in IRex.

 ME> I usually see the two characters "ÿþ" at the very end of
the message
 ME> just above the unsubscribe footer.

I think this "problem" is solved. The file with the text I import
as a footer was corrupt, so IRex didn't import it correctly, which causes
those strange characters at the end of every gated message.

Now you should see a correct footer on messages coming from the gate (with
info on which e-mail address to use for comments), so in in the future we
don't have to use the list for matters on the gating part (because it has
nothing to do with elebbs).

 ME> Another thing I see in some of these messages is a character which
 ME> appears as a box "" which is think is a CR/LF perhaps.

I don't think so. A CR/LF is also used when starting a new paragraph, so
you should see them in almost every message gated (also in this one). Could
you send an example of such a message to the e-mail address mentioned in
the footer? Then I will take a look at it.

I think (but this is still a wild guess) it has something to do with
characters used in some countries. In spain one such character is an
up-side-down "!". Because those characters are high-ascii (which
isn't a problem in fidonet), it is possible IRex translates those to a
lower-ascii code which is probably seen as a box on the mailinglist. If
that's really the case, I can't do much about that, except to ask the
original poster of the message not to use such characters in the future.

Greetings,
   Jos Huijnen

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