AL> Interesting.  This is a leftover from the Opus/Maximus era, I believe.  
For
 AL> maximum compatibility, GoaTED should support this method of defining the
 AL> default origin line, and not interpret this line as an area definition.

   There are some more "definitions" in a true AREAS.BBS, that maybe GoatED 
doesn't support too? This is what the first lines in my AREAS.BBS (originally 
from 1989) looks like:

West Swedish Host * 46-31-944907 ! Bjorn Felten
;
-POINTNET=9300
;
S:\UTMAIL       ROUTETHRU
S:\BAD_MSGS     BAD_MSGS
;




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