From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npois!houxi!hocda!tbm Newsgroups: net.news Title: Trailing Blank Lines Article-I.D.: hocda.188 Posted: Sun Jun 6 23:11:02 1982 Received: Mon Jun 7 01:21:00 1982 References: cbosgd.2333 Is it more practical to request someone to remove all the blank lines AFTER an article is complete than to talk about 15 -- 18 ? I'm bothered when using a 23 line msg interface and find so many times I have to step over 2 blank lines only to have an EOF staring at me and have to hit return again. Is there some utility which prepares 25 line articles? Tom Merrick hocda!tbm or mvux[bgvw]!l5