ml> the tearline MAY have been a control line at one point a long long LONG 
ml> time ago... before you came into fidonet? i dunno, but i DO know that it's 
ml> use as a control line was going going gone out back in about july of 
ml> 1990... how do i know this? this is about the time that QBBS sysops came 
ml> out with ReTear, a program to alter the tearlines on messages posted on 
ml> unregistered boards. why was ReTear developed? because that old QBBS 
ml> tearline used to state that the system was unregistered and a lot of people 
ml> didn't like that. so... now the tearline is USERtext instead of a control 
ml> line... how am i so accurate on the approx dates of this? because RA v0.04 
ml> was released then and that's when i picked it and fidonet up
>

BTW, do you have "retear" available for FREQ?  I would like to
get some sysops who aren't conforming to the PID spec to run it. BFN. 
Paul.
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