I think it's something with John's mailer. I
read the
 message on Outlook 2000 and Netscape 4.7, and I think
 Pine too, and they all showed the weird stuff... 
FWIW, here are three example UTF7 escape sequences.
      + A C Q -  =  $
      + A D 0 -  =  =
      + A F 8 -  =  _
If I mistakenly send another UTF message, anybody, just ask
and I'll fix it.
John A.