BL>   BTW, how do you know where to add your EOT? Read the Tear line, do
BL> you? If that's the case, what's it doing that the Tear line doesn't
BL> do? Your EOT logic is loony.

FM> Actually, that's a very good point. 

It would be, if it were true.

FM> If an automated process can
FM> determine where to place a SOT/EOT pair, 

It can't, not once a possible blank line, a possibly optional tearline 
and an even possibly optional origin line, have been added to the
message by software.

FM> then by trivial proof a
FM> SOT/EOT pair ain't necessary.

Yep, wish it were so.  Would have been a hell of a lot easier.
BFN.  Paul.
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