MvdV>>> I see that your ping robot changes the tear line preamble to MvdV>>> "-+-". I haven't decided yet if that is a good idea...
SM>> Why? This is a string that marks the end of the message body.
MvdV> Does it really? It may originally be meant to mark the end of the text MvdV> written by the user (!= end of message),
That is what I mean.
MvdV> but it seems it has evolved. At MvdV> some point in the history of Fidonet it was used as a place for MvdV> program information. (limited to 40 chars by ECHOPOL1)
As you already read in the documentation for GoldEd: