dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (03/10/84)
Recently I have seen a number of postings which, in an effort to avoid the known bug (on some systems) of articles which begin with white space, have a single "." on a line by itself. Some sites treat "." as a terminator, and throw away anything in the article after that line. Therefore, you should not do this. Use a dash or a comma if you want it to be as discreet as possible. Better yet, begin you text in column 1 of your first line of text.