On 2019 Mar 25 12:05:44, you wrote to me:

 ON>>> Anyone using JAM know what these attributes mean?

 ml>> you'd be better off asking joho...

 ON> Will do. I try not to bother him,

understandable...

 ON> I know he's trying to port FroDo to FPC and potentially making it Open
 ON> Source... and based upon the conversations with Dale (Intermail) the
 ON> source is a MESS.

probably... there was ASM, Pascal and C all in there...

 ON> I did find
 ON> https://defsol.com/news/jammbp-the-joaquim-an...
 ON> oposal/

 ON> However, it is as clear as my guesses were.

yeah... things were planned but then RL and the 'net came along and derailed a
lot of projects...

 ON> PS. What was the answer to the origin of Tear?

tear lines were originally used to indicate the end of the message text... they
 are used like the ones in news and email... everything below them could be cut
 off... back in the day when bbses were run off of floppies, systems stripped
everything out of the messages they could so they could store more messages...
eventually, they were just used to indicate the end of the message body... of
course, also stripping out some control data lead to not being able to respond
in some ways... for example, you could not respond privately via netmail to an
echomail message...

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