On Mon, 28 Jan 91 10:11:51 EST jon hilgreen said: >CHris is right, but stopped reading. WHat Hans means is hi mailreader thingy >reads a mail message in, if it has 72 equals symbols or more in a row, it >chops the message in two and puts in in two mail files, part one, and part two. >Which is a pain when you have 100 new messages a day. SO in other words dont >use '='s as a divider, use '-'s! 8*> Using a line of equals as a message separater is SOP for IBM CMS's Rice Mail, probably the most commonly used mail front end on BITNET. However, I find using MAIL to read mail consumes HUGE CPU resources compared to IBM's Readerlist (customized for my own taste) & PEEK. I only use MAIL (MAILBOOK actually) to "read" mail I plan to reply to. PEEK doesn't care about the === signs. Most of the time what folks have following all those equal signs is their .sig which I rarely miss :-)