??????? / unessary question marks in e-mail

Good morning:
When I forward e-mails to a PC the people mget several ??? in the copy of the e-mail. Any explanation?

Dear Manfred,
Good Morning.
You do know that this forum is run by Apple for users to discuss issues between themselves don't you? It does say when you log on.
"Our discussion forums are filled with thousands of Macintosh and iPod users from around the world. Search for an answer, post your question, or answer other users' questions in the Apple Discussions community. If you need help using Discussions, check out the Help & Terms of Use link in the sidebar to the right. "
The reason I say this is because the tone of your post sounds rather like you are demanding an answer from Apple. Users of this forum are not Apple, they are customers.
As for your problem, absolutely no idea. It doesn't happen to me. It could be your PC friends' server settings perhaps. Your problem has many possible variables and without more information it's difficult to hazard a guess.
This would seem to be a problem with either your own or your friend's email service or settings rather than a problem with your powerbook. Does this issue also happen when forwarding to other macs? If so, are they using the same email services?
One last test would be to see if it happens consistently to all pc users or only to particuloar ones, also before forwarding the message.
Email services often handle formatted text in different ways so strange looking additions like ** or ??? are quite common. Try sending mail as plain unformatted text and see if that helps.
Sorry I can't be of further assistance at this stage. Good luck.
Message was edited by: Rajesh Sharma - Misunderstood original query.

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