10 Feb 96 11:32, Paul Edwards wrote to Bob Lawrence:

 > o TOPT 

 > This control line is an exception in that it does not have a ":"
 > after the keyword.  It is used to specify the point number of
 > the originating node.

Bzzt.  You've made the same mistake as FTS-1.  TOPT is used to specify the
point of the _destination_ node.  

 > o --- 

o ---[data]

 > This control line, known as the "tear line" appears in echomail 
 > messages.  is normally the name of the program which wrote the 
 > echomail control lines.  A tearline may be empty, in which case it is 
 > just "---".




(There is a leading space in front of the asterisk.)

 > This control line, known as the "origin line" appears in echomail 
 > messages. The address should be the address of the originating system in 
 > the current network.  It should be a 4D address, although new programs 
 > should accept 2D and 3D addresses also.

Saying it should be a 4D address is your interpretation.  Certainly a 5D
address is acceptable by the vast majority of FidoNet mail processors and
readers currently being used.  It is correct to recommend using 4D
addresses over 2D though.

You haven't actually specified what goes in the  part.  Very
strictly speaking the system name should go in there (although to a large
degree most folks ignore that part of FTS-4 anyway).

Recently I found some documentation for a pre-version-3.31 of the ConfMail
mail processor, where it gave an example of an origin line where there was
a data part after the first bracket of the origin line address but before
the address itself, eg.


From memory the example I saw had the word "Opus" there.  Right
now I can't find the document I refer to though (it's on a disk -
somewhere).  Of course, this added part never seemed to have made it into
FTS-4, although the current version of GoldED supports it (calling it a
"netname") but in the GoldED Reference Manual the author
recommends users avoid it.

Regards
Andrew

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