That sounds like an irony mark (ALT+1567), or an appropriate emoticon. Sorry my email client won't show the symbol :-( -Phil > Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 16:48:31 +0000 > To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > From: pbs@pilling.demon.co.uk > Subject: Re: [pbs] On Virus Transmission. > > Hi, > > In message <725E173BA6CE42CFBAB0A0C9B9EE0BF3@OwnerPC>, Robin Carrier > <robin@no1bird.com> writes > >does that solve it? > > You need semantic markup - in the way you can mark up text effects > <italic>narcissus</italic>, you can markup meaning <ironic></ironic> > > So: > > <sarcastic> > From recent discussions here at PBS forum I have learnt that viruses do > not exist. And to think that I used to take so many precautions in the > past! If I only read the experts that write here before! Believe me, any > time the virus "problem" comes forward say "somatic variations" and that > is solved. > </sarcastic> > > -- > David Pilling > email: david@pilling.demon.co.uk > web: http://www.davidpilling.net/ > post: David Pilling, P.O. Box 22, Thornton-Cleveleys, Blackpool. FY5 1LR. UK > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/