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(OP)
What does it mean when a person starts there email with the following:

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They only use it at the start of the initial email (no subsequent emails include this sequence of characters). Is it only a reference so that the initial email can be located? (I would think that the lack of RE in the subject line would be reference enough to the fact that it is an initial email.)

Any insight?

-Kati

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It may be how their e-mail program quotes from a previous message.

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(OP)
I originally thought that this was just how their e-mail program quotes from a previous message but it is not in reference to any previous message. And in places where their email program does quote a previous message it is not done in this matter.

The mystery continues. Thank you for your thought though.

-Kati

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I get things *like* that sometimes when people send me e-mails that have been formatted in HTML.

I don't let Thunderbird show HTML in messages by default so often I end up with some strange formatting where there would have been images or tables.

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