What is this being included in the beginning of e-mail messages where I have included myself in the To: line?

EXAMPLE:

<{removed email address}>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
MIME-Version: 1.0
 
EXAMPLE:
 
Why is a =2C being shown instead of the comma (,) character in the text I composed?
 
Hi Fred=2C

How can I get rid of this "garbage"? It is completely unnecessary and has made using hotmail.com miserable.

I’ve moved your post to the Reading and Writing Messages forum.

It seems that you’re viewing the full message headers of the message. We need a screenshot of the message that shows what you’re reporting so we can investigate this. Here’s how to capture a screenshot:

To capture a screenshot:
 
1. Press the "Print Screen" or “PrintScrn” key located on the upper right hand corner of the keyboard.
2. Paste it in Microsoft Paint. To do this:

   a. Click the “Start” button.
   b. Highlight “All Programs.”
   c. Highlight “Accessories.”
   d. Choose “Paint.”

3. In Microsoft Paint’s toolbar, click the “Edit” button then choose “Paste.” You can also press simultaneously the “Ctrl” + “V” keys on your keyboard.
4. Click on “File.”
5. Select “Save As.”
6. Type a name for the file.
7. Click “Save.”

It's happening because Hotmail is lame, and it takes them more than 5 weeks to fix a simple bug which corrupts the headers with extra linebreaks.

Come on, folks (microsoft) --- this is a simple bug and you should have it fixed by now (11/7/09); I am not far from abandoning msn/live/hotmail due to this and other bugs I have reported that remain unfixed - that's a pain, but these bugs added to hotmail since the conversion to "live" are also a pain. No, I won't alter my browser choice to work around these microsoft bugs.

@ firefoxforme

Our Product Team already identified this as a known issue and they're now working on it. Unfortunately, we cannot provide any information on when this will be fixed.

While I find this and many other bugs in the new "hotmail live" *very* frustrating, I do appreciate your acknowledgement of the problem.

I look forward to a new release that is reasonably tested/debugged and that is IMAP-capable (without IMAP I'm relegated to your buggy, user-hostile "live" web page service - my patience to preserve my long-standing hotmail.com e-mail address is worn *very* thin by you on this.)