Russell said:

>>> I assume Olin meant that "are sp", which appears above for me,
>>> as it did for me in the original, seemed to be a truncated
>>> sentence ending.

>>> Do you see anything after "are sp" ?

Neil said:
>> Yep -- I'm sure.  on my system it said "... are specified by
>> package type."  None of the lines or paragraphs were truncated.

> That's extremely interesting.

> I make the original message ABOUT 259 characters at the truncation
> point (I'm not going to go back and count it again) so it was quite
> probably 256 characters give or maybe 255.

I went back to Glenn's original message.  It is not truncated in
my mail reader.  The "p" in "are sp" is the 256th character of one
of several very long lines.

> This suggests that there may HAVE been a non printing character
> there, added after character 256 odd, which caused truncation.
> A quick look shows it's not there now though.

As delivered to me, the original message did NOT have any funny
characters.  Message body was all simple printable ASCII text
[with too few line terminators :-) ].

> Neil - can you look at the source of the original message or any
> that had the whole sentence in them and see if there appears to be
> any extra characters there. Looking at HTML level MAY work but it
> may need a hex editor.

Original message was a simple single part MIME text message of
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1".

						Lee Jones

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