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

