Sending News messages, a “From” in the text always get’s prefixed with a “>” – why?

Hi,

when I'm writing a message to a news group, whenever one of my paragraphs begins with the word "From", that "From" is being prefixed with a Greater Than character (">") when downloaded from the news server (news.gmane.org).

Why is this happening? How can I get rid of this problem?


Here's an example:

When I'm typing:
"From a software architect's perspective ..."

After sending the message, when I'm downloading the message from the news server, the above sentence reads:
">From a software architect's perspective ..."