Ah. It's the mark people use in obituary threads on Metafilter as well. Seemingly no one can quite trace it on Metafilter (http://mssv.net/wiki/index.php/Dot), but it may have come from the Well in some roundabout way (except doesn't get standardised on Metafilter until sometime in 2001 or 2002).
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Date: 2011-10-06 02:28 pm (UTC)