spurious characters in cvs-all subject

[Andrew Boothman]

Dan Langille wrote:

>>>Anyone else notice the spurious characters in the subject of at
>>>least a couple of commits today (around 13:35:20 PST)? They appear
>>>to have stopped. -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/
>>>      
>>>
>>What did they look like?
>>    
>>
>
>A square box after right after "cvs commit:".  I saw it in this 
>message:
>
>http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=130598+0+current/cvs-all
>

I noticed them too viewing my mail in Mozilla 1.3b in several commit 
messages on cvs-all. They seem to be the standard character that Mozilla 
uses when it doesn't know how to render a character as they turn up in 
large quantites in 90% of the spam I get.....

I have no idea why they would be appearing where they are. They appeared 
in Martin Blapp's two commits to editors/openoffice-devel and Akinori 
Musha's commit to convert/ruby-lv.

Andrew