04 Apr 19 23:09, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to All:

 MvdV> Fmail creates an areas.bbs that that starts like this:

 MvdV> 2:280/5555 ! Michiel van der Vlist
 MvdV> ; Created by FConfig-W32-2.0.1.2 - Thu Apr 04 22:44:12 2019
 MvdV> !\FIDO\JAM\ALLFIX              ALLFIX_HELP          2:203/0 280/464 

                [ ... ]

 MvdV> Note the first line. Goated interpretes it as an area definition 
 MvdV> and creates an area with a tag of "!". Obviously not what was 
 MvdV> meant. If I put a ';' in front of that first line, all is well. 

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


Maybe the first few lines of my Areas.Bbs will give you a clue...

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; Like all standard AREAS.BBS files, the first NON-COMMENT line should
; be the name of your system, followed by an exclamation point, and then
; your name.  This name will be used when adding origin lines to messages
; which were created on your system.

Somewhere in New Hampshire's White Mountains ! Fred Riccio

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MvdV> --- goAtEd-windows/386 1.0.5-154-a1826692

That's why your origin line line looks like it does

--- Msged/NT 6.0.1