That symbol is automaticaly inserted at the beggining of lines when you reply to a message while quoting the original message.
One more is added every times the message is re-repplyed. So, the eight's reply will have >>>>>>>> at the beggining ot the lines from the first message.
You can copy the whole message into your word processor and do a Search and replace of ">" to "" or empty text.
It will automaticaly remove ALL ">" from the text.
Electro
April 2011