Subject: squiggly lines in messages

From: "Mark T. Valites" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 11:36:51 -0500 (EST)

Every once in a while, I get a message that comes through with a word that
appears to underlined by a squiggly line composed of "^" (caret)
charaters.  The sender(s) of the message and myself are also pine users,
all with the default character set (US-ASCII).  When viewing the raw data
file, the squiggly underline also shows there.  I've looked all over my
config, the help docs & the list archives, but have had no luck find where
the squiggly underline comes from.  Can anyone help maintain my sainity
and let me know where this comes from?

-- 
Mark T. Valites
Unix Systems Analyst
CIT - SUNY Geneseo
>--))>

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From: "Mark T. Valites" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 15:17:40 -0500 (EST)

On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Mark T. Valites wrote:

> Every once in a while, I get a message that comes through with a word
> that appears to underlined by a squiggly line composed of "^" (caret)
> all with the default character set (US-ASCII).  When viewing the raw
> data file, the squiggly underline also shows there.  I've looked all
> over my config, the help docs & the list archives, but have had no luck
> find where the squiggly underline comes from.  Can anyone help maintain
> my sainity and let me know where this comes from?

To clearify this a bit more, the senders of the messages are just as
baffled as I about the origin of the underline.  They are both extremely
competent software developers, so I doubt the problem is originating with
them.  They did NOT insert the underline manually on the next line of
text, nor can they think of any origin for it.  Sometimes it shows up on a
quoted reply, sometimes it doesn't...

Someone tell me I'm not crazy...

-- 
Mark T. Valites
Unix Systems Analyst
CIT - SUNY Geneseo
>--))> >--))>

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From: Erik Parker <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 15:26:16 -0600 (CST)

> Someone tell me I'm not crazy...

Does it show up like that in their sent-mail as well? Are you using pico as
the editor, or an alternative?

Can you reproduce, or is it random?