Strange symbol "=" at the end of message

Please,
I have noticed that some replied/forwarded e-mail messages, which were initially sent to different persons possess at the end of the message the symbol "=".
Say I send:
+Hi Mary+
+Tell me about your new car.+
Labzen
+Then, I receive a reply:+
Hi
+Not received it yet, but soon I invite you....+
Mary
+----- Original Message ----- From: "Labzen"<[email protected]>+
+To: "Mary" <[email protected]>+
+Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 4:17 PM+
+Subject: new car+
+Hi Mary+
+Tell me about your new car.+
Labzen=
Is that a normal behavior? Thanks in advance for any incoming information.
LabZen

LabZen wrote:
Thanks for your prompt reply. That's interesting because the default of my Mail application is plain text. Mail servers and e-mail applications should handle with plain text without mistakes. Isn't that true? I do not have enough knowledge about computer/software, but I believe that e-mail traffic should deal ever as plain text (no special formats). May be that's the reason of this kind of mistake.
Also, it would very nice to know whether other people are experiencing the same situation or not.
Sorry about my english.
Unfortunately, that is a long, long story. The only thing that e-mail can transfer is plain text. There are a number of clever tricks to make it transfer pretty fonts, videos, pictures, sounds, etc. One of those tricks uses the '=' pretty often.
The funny thing is, while no e-mail message is anything other than plain text, virtually no e-mail message really is plain text either. If you add any attachments to your message, it will no longer be in plain text, regardless of what it tells you. Once your messages leaves your machine, any machine it passes through may, and probably will, chop up, re-arrange, and re-format your message.
Ultimately, the reason for this mistake is just pure incompetence on the part of programmers. E-mail is a very old standard and very well-defined. With the notable exception of Apple, very few companies have even made the slightest attempt to properly handle it. Even Apple has been steadily dumbing down its e-mail software over the past 15 years to try to make it more compatible.
I don't have a good answer for you. I really don't think using plain text e-mail is a good idea. I think it is just a waste of time. My theory is that you should make full use of the technology available to you and if other people can't keep up, too bad. If you need maximum compatibility with people who don't have modern e-mail clients, then your only real option is to print out your e-mail and put it in an envelope.

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