Andrew, at 15:43 on Tue, Apr 25 1995, you wrote to Bill Grimsley ...

BG> As it defaults to on, I wonder why Andrew specifically changed it to 
BG> off then?

ac> I disagree with certain points in Paul's SOT/EOT specification 
ac> which have no relevance to "Distinguishing user-entered text", nor 
ac> can I guarantee my software will comply with the entire proposal, 
ac> nor do I see a particular need for my system to use SOT/EOT aside 
ac> from making Paul a happier person.

Dunno, I more or less agree with Paul's basic philosophy re the SOT/EOT
kludge (To Rod: No, I don't wish to enter into a protracted discussion re
this!), and am quite happy to enable this function in my editor.  Indeed,
with 3.05.a, I have to, lest actual message data is lost ("---"
stuff etc.).

BG> The way Msged works now (re "---" etc), the SOT/EOT should be
BG> hard-coded IMO.

ac> The sooner it is hard-coded, the sooner I recompile the source to
ac> disable it.

Let's split the difference and make it a user-option then, OK?  |-)

Regards, Bill
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