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Last week I had a horrible time trying to send my "Natural Migraine Treatment FAQ"
in to the auto-poster. I spent hours sending myself test email messages and
trying to figure out what was wrong. It seemed that the blank lines were being
converted to lines with a single space character, somewhere in the email software.
Finally it turned out that the copy of my FAQ I was working from had those
space characters in it already, (probably from having been copied from one
computer to another), and that with the editor I was using (vi), I thought I
could see that the line was completely blank, when in fact I couldn't and
it wasn't ... the cursor position at the end of a line is the same whether
there's one space there or nothing. Once I figured that out it was very easy.
(Wouldn't it be easier for everybody if the marker for end-of-header was
a printable character, e.g. "&", rather than a completely blank line?)

I suppose no traffic on the list means everything's fine: everybody's
FAQ's are being posted with no trouble. Good. Either that or the list
software isn't working, but Laurent Duperval proved that wasn't the case.

Cathy TISSATAAFL
The use of violence is never the only available choice.

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