BL>   SOT is useful in Netmail that is neither: international; from a point,
BL> nor to a point (no #1 kludge lines) where someone has written
"AREA: "
BL> at the beginning of their message. I don't know what the odds against
BL> this are. It is not the sort of thing you do accidentally, and if a

If I can quote a message from someone who has done it accidentally,
will you give me your house?  Remember, I only have access to messages
from a very limited subset of the members of Fidonet, so there is not
a hope in hell of me getting such a message.

BL> dickhead wanted to use this method to post mail without an origin, he
BL> could do it better by editing a hex-dump of the packet itself, and
BL> remove his address from the header at the same time.

Normal users can do no such thing.  They CAN write ASCII text though.
Try to get your one remaining neuron to recognize the difference.

BFN.  Paul.
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