On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:28:15 -0700, Dan Abel > wrote:

>In article >,
> Joseph Littleshoes > wrote:
>
>> Peter A wrote:
>
>> >>Ingredients:
>> >>< c. vinegar
>> >>1 tsp. celery seed
>> >>1 tsp. mustard
>> >>1 onion, chopped
>> >>1= c. sugar
>> >>1 c. vegetable oil
>> >>
>> >>Karen
>
>> > Your recipe is a mess. < c vinegar? Gee, how helpful - how much and what
>> > kind? Mustard - prepared or dry? Any salad dressing with so much sugar
>> > is guaranteed to be awful. It's salad, not dessert.
>
>> A news group should not be an excuse for rudeness, the simple typos
>> above could have been asked about or commented upon in a less acerbic
>> manner.
>
>Are you speaking about real typos, or just that you and I are using Macs
>and Karen is using a PC, which supports a character set that isn't
>supported on the Mac.

i use a p.c., and i got the '< c' and '1= c' also. maybe it's an html
character set.

your pal,
blake