Lately, i've been noticing a heavy use of ellipsis punctuation by the punctuation illiterate, when ellipsis is entirely not appropriate grammatically, and something like, say, a comma or even a period or even (gasp!) a transistion between thoughts might be called for.

Freakish thing one: This usage might be contagious via frequent email. i believe it has been spread to just about the entire company i work at by one individual.

Freakish thing two: Evil spawn of bad ellipsis. The punctuation ,,, has been invented! I believe as of yet it is confined to email conversation, and has not made its way to official memos or literature. However, my gut feeling is that there is something terribly malignant about ,,,.