It appears that on 6/12/06 at 21:21 Tim Lapin (sympatico) spake thus:

>
>What you are seeing is most likely the symbol used to indicate the text
>to which you are replying.  I don't get dots, rather I get chevrons ">"
>or in other packages, solid lines or bars.
>
>The reason some might disappear is that by resizing the window, you are
>changing the wrap point, most likely.
>
>As an example, my copy of T-Bird shows your example text with a solid
>bar as the "quote" character, while in this reply, it has been converted
>to a series of chevrons.
>
>Other than that, I can't imagine what you are seeing.

no, they are artefacts

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Pat O'Halloran http://www.danu.co.uk  
History repeats itself; historians repeat each other - Guedalla


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