Subj : Tear lines
To   : AKAcastor
From : Shurato
Date : Fri Apr 26 2024 06:19 pm


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

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

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

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

Thanks for pointing this out, though there's nothing I can do about it.  My
mailer adds the second one and the first one is just good form before a
signature...

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