>From enami@parity-error.cv.sony.co.jp  Thu Sep  4 18:16:03 1997
>Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> writes:
>
>> > > How can I interpret this indentation?  Did the auther try to line up
>> > > by colon, but just failed to do so?
>> >
>> >Not sure...
>> 
>> Yes, they lined up for me. I dunno why yours didn't.
>
>Hmm, you are looking /var/log/messages rather than dmesg output and
>(with assuming that kernel name is /netbsd) the length of your
>hostname is 2 or 10 or 18 or ..., isn't it?  I found that with my
>sample in previous mail, all the line except SKSV: line are lined up
>in such case.
>
>If want to line up, TAB code shouldn't be used.

Perhaps you should look at things more closely. I didn't put
any tabs in there.