BL> Paul is suggesting that we replace the Tearline with EOT.

Nope, poor old Bob.

BL> What happens if someone types a false Tearline? Nothing.

Depends entirely on how good the systems which process it are.

BL> What happens if someone types a false EOT (like I did)
BL> with an EOR-aware reader? You lose the Origin line.

Fraid not. Poor old Bob.

BL> Now you don't even know the address to send hate mail...

Fraid you do. Poor old Bob.

Then there is the tiny matter is the other ways of working
out what the address is like the MSGID. Poor old Bob.

BL> It won't people long to work out that EOT
BL> may be misused to send "secret messages."

Is that right ?  That must explain why they do that between
say the origin line and the PATH too. Poor old Bob.

BL> If I disable EOT and then put #1EOT in text, and write my
BL> secret message in a false Tearline, all EOT-aware readers will
BL> delete the false tearline and never see the secret message.

Whoopy fucking do. They could have done that already, they didnt.

BL> If we assume that an Origin line exists...

PE> You aren't even allowed to assume that.

FM> That is certainly a valid possible reading of that spec. I bet
FM> most people *don't* read it that way, but it only takes one. :-)

BL> So what happens with the missing Origin line? What catastrophe
BL> follows that is worse than not having the Origin line?

Same catastrophe you mindless juvenile games produced, sweet fuck all.

BL> With Paul's missing EOT we can *lose* the Origin and Tear lines in
BL> FTS compliant messages as I've shown,

What a complete and utter fuckwit. ALL that might possibly
have got 'lost' was the stuff between the fake EOT and that
tearline/originline. Whoopy fucking do. Poor senile old Bob.

BL> and maybe half the message as well, depending on how EOT is processed.

Which deliberately chose to play silly buggers. Whoopy fucking do.
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