On 2019 Apr 04 23:09:24, you wrote to All:

 MV> So who's got it right? Should Goated ignore that first line, or should
 MV> Fmail put a ';' in front of it?

the semicolon solution...

FWIW: fastecho created its areas.bbs with three lines at the top... all three 
with a semicolon in the first column...

eg:
;
; Created by FastEcho-Setup 1.46
;
X:\FD\MAIL\LOOP                @_LOOP-OT
X:\FD\MAIL\SUSPECT             @_SUSPECT-OT
!X:\JAM\FIDO\NETMAIL           FIDONETMAIL
!X:\JAM\LOCAL\NEWFILES         NEWFILES
!X:\JAM\LOCAL\POSTOFFI         POSTOFFICE


)\/(ark

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