Subj : Desired Living Document (section): Author Compliance
To   : Ozz Nixon
From : mark lewis
Date : Sat Mar 23 2019 11:37 am


 On 2019 Mar 22 17:49:36, you wrote to All:

 ON> fsc-0077

 ON>   Section D., I quote... Tear Line:  This sub-field contains a
 ON>     tearline (not to exceed 35 characters including the
 ON>     leading "---" characters.  This line is required on all
 ON>     echomail messages.

that's an old FSC that was never standardized... tearlines are not even 
required in fidonet by the standard that is in place...

 ON>   I have seen some 60+ character tear lines, for example:
 ON>   "--- Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; sv-SE; rv:1.9.1.16)
 ON> Gecko/20101125"

tearlines and origin lines and even message body lines have artificial limits 
placed on them because folks got used to 80x25 terminals... they look very 
funny when viewed on terminals with larger widths...

trivia: do you know how/why tearlines got their name and what they were used 
for?

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