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Subject: Re: Ada Notation
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The <...> tags are a spoof of the HTML (hypertext markup language) tags
used in
web pages.  For example, in a web page the tags <table> and </table>
begin and
end a table, <ul> and </ul> begin and end a bullet list, and so on.  So
someone
who wants to mark a section of his usenet posting as a flame might
surround it
with <flame> and </flame> tags.  This sort of thing is not uncommon in
postings
these days, so you are likely to see it again in the future.