Explaining the Equals Signs in Old Email Excerpts Shared on Twitter
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Slow-proofed and worth the wait. Worth its weight in flour.
Summary
The article explains the phenomenon of equals signs appearing in old email excerpts being shared on Twitter. The author, who has experience writing mail readers, clarifies that the equals signs are not a code or OCR artifact, but rather the result of poor conversion of emails to readable formats. The article provides technical insight into email encoding and formatting issues.
Key quotes
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What's up with all those equals signs anyway?
I mean, having written mail readers and stuff; not because I've been to Caribbean islands.
For some reason or other, people have been posting a lot of excerpts from old emails on Twitter over the last few days.
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