Paul, at 19:13 on Jun 02 1995, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

BG> No, as I said, I had to physically edit all control info from my 
BG> x-post as it was deleted the first time.  I can assure you 
BG> unreservedly that the original had ALL control info 100% intact 
BG> (i.e. "@", "---", "PATH" and
"SEEN-BY" were all there, one of the 
BG> intact origin lines _before_ the "@EOT:" kludge line).

PE> You can have 15 million before it if you want, so long as there 
PE> is one after it.  15 million lines starting with "---" too.  In 
PE> fact, as many ascii characters as you damn well like.

Correct, according to the "Paul Edwards Book of FSC Kludges".  It
didn't occur to me that he must have _intentionally_ inserted his origin
line within his SOT/EOT bracketed text, then Msged added the second one, as
it's supposed to.

BG> I didn't think that was possible with Msged 3.05 at all.

PE> If you DON'T display seenbys, and you DO switch on SOT/EOT, then
PE> Msged 3.05 will let you enter any printable ascii characters you want.

True.  I'd wondered why the imported message had been stripped of the
control info I was trying to show you the first time, but I realise now
that Msged saw the first EOT (the imported one) and deleted everything
following that.

PE> Are you sure the message actually violated FSC-XXXX.000? 

BG> I have no idea, that's purportedly your area of expertise.

PE> It didn't appear to.  BFN.  Paul.

No, it was just another Grimsleyan Brain Fart. [(C) RS 1994]

Regards, Bill
@EOT:

--- Msgedsq/2 3.10 alpha