"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message
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. I suspect I'm not quite getting the joke there, though I might be!

Its the start of a multipart bit of text.
At one time OE would do just that and assume it was part of the control text
and not the post.
It would then dump what was left as it was looking for the termination bit
to start processing it.
It is a really old bug, but still has an effect on some people as they are
still using really old software.
Most linux users always use really old windows software so they can say how
bad it is (like comparing 7+ year old XP with 9 week old linux and saying
look how insecure windows is).
The joke was that I replied what sig even though it was there. 8-)