> Weirdly, I had to use parentheses instead of angle brackets in the first example, because between the compose window and the message preview the quote got swallowed. I'm not sure why.

Heh. That one would almost count as a CS under Programming...almost. :) I think that's happened to everyone at least once on this type of forum, though.

Ever write a web page without a WYSIWYG editor? Angle brackets in an HTML document--such as any page generated by this forum--denote hypertext markup language code. :) (And I just discovered that the forum removes any HTML code you attempt to place in the message body in the preview page...)

Trunks

PS-I had a friend on another message board halfway across the Net accidentally use brackets to signify an expression once..."blinking" at the post she was replying to...rather than other expression notation like *blink* or ::blink::. The reactions of the Netscape users on the forum were...incredibly amusing. >:)