People Laugh at You‏

[BrilloPad]

It indicates that the following text is in a language whose characters run right-to-left, such as Arabic. So the browser thinks "Ah, I need to display this the opposite way round to the rest of the text"

It's needed if, for example, one wants to quote some right-to-left language in a piece of text which is otherwise in a language written left-to-right.

I wish I had kept the original spam now : I guess there was some reason they put this in the email.

I do remember it was quite an eye catching email design : it certainly made one pay attention.

[bogeyman]

:0003 TSOP

[BrilloPad]

Can someone explain the "joke" to a c++ investment banker please?

[NickFitz]

:0003 TSOP