Subj : Tear lines
To   : Shurato
From : AKAcastor
Date : Thu Apr 25 2024 01:29 pm

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I have a question about 'tear lines' on messages.  If Digital Man is reading this maybe he'll have some insight as a long term developer of FTN-compatible systems.  Or anyone else of course please jump in.

I have a vague recollection of there being issues around "multiple tear lines" in messages - IIRC it's a topic I saw discussed in the 90s.  In a very brief search I didn't find anything specifying that there can be only one tearline, so I could be chasing a false memory here. :)

I'm not aware of any actual issues around multiple lines looking like a tear line (at least on my system running Squish and Maximus it seems fine), so I'm not reporting a problem or anything - just curious if there are technical edge-cases around tear lines in messages as I seem to remember in the past some people being picky about it.

(I would expect software that cares about a tearline to search for the line starting with "---" from the end of the message anyway, eliminating any potential issue.)


Chris/akacastor

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