JL> I'm not =trying= to be very annoying but..

-=B-)

 ml>> if you'd like to see it, i have the original PKT destined to
 ml>> my hub with the above message packed in it. the above 20 dashes
 ml>> line is unmodified in said pkt.

 JL> But do you still have the first PKT, with the message that came out
 JL> with '___----------'?

no but i can assure you that it was all dashes and no underscores in the
PKT here on my system before it left to my feed...

 JL> This message:

 JL> Saturday 26 October 16:54, mark lewis wrote to Paul Edwards:

 ml>> errrr... take your pick at the PROGRAMMERS you want "shot"
 ml>> then... it's not the mail SYSTEM that has the problem but the
 ml>> programmers that can't determine things correctly...

 ml>> how many times have you seen something like this?

 ml>>   ___----------
 ml>>   this was under a line of all dashes

 JL> Please read your quotes again.. As far as I understand, you
 JL> =intentionally= entered the example tearline (as '___----------')
 JL> to show us what incorrectly invalidated tearlines can look like.. I
 JL> guess you fooled yourself then ;-)

hahaha, no not at all... those were all dashes... no underscores...

 JL> But you certainly have a point about programmers that can't
 JL> determine things correctly.. I had to correct my quotes because my
 JL> editor (GoldED) had made it out to be '___-+--+--+--', sadly enough
 JL> :-(

point made... please ask odinn to only invalidate true three dashes
tearlines... >

)\/(ark