JW> OK, cool. So...before I go jumping into my code.....

 JW> For the sake of argument, am I required to keep all origin
 JW> lines, or just the one starting with the '*'?

on your own system, the tearline and everything after it can be torn off
and not displayed at all... that information, however, may be needed to be
stored somewhere so that it might be used with a reply to get the reply
back to the originator (ie: private netmail reply)...

it has been common practise to retain that info as well as the control line
info and simply not display the control line info unless the user
specifically toggled it on...

by not retaining that info, users can't tell if the message is from someone
local (on the same board) or in some far away place... this is one reason
why it has been kept and displayed to the users...

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