FE> Back to SOT/EOT, okay, most probably it's too late for a solution of
 FE> the problems addressed by it. But nevertheless it's useful, first it
 FE> shows some major problems in FTS-0004, and further it demonstrated an
 FE> ugly bug in some JAM-tosser-implementations shifting kludge lines to
 FE> the top... technically unnecessary alteration of echomail is XAB.

JAM is a local storage format... fidonet does NOT care about local storage... 
it could be a flat text file or a DBIII database file... SOT/EOT is not
necessary... it is only someone's (yes i know who) way of determining the
start and end of the user text. i see no problems with the current methods
other than lazy programmers who can't work up intelligent code to determine
it one way or the other.

)\/(ark