In a message dated 06-09-15, Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:   
      
   GM Ed,   
      
   EV> A Ham wanted to buy a house where all the utilities were underground   
   EV> and he told me that he made sure the contract allowed him to put up   
   EV> a tower on the property before he signed the contract.   
      
   If he puts up a tower, then he'd better make it a lightning path to   
   ground. And he must also disconnect and/or ground all feed- and rotator-   
   lines coming into the shack.   
      
    HG> BTW, I would appreciate if you could leave out that "73" at the   
    HG> end of your last sentence or at least move it to an own line.   
      
   EV> I do put it on a seperate line, like this:   
   EV> 73   
      
   EV> I figured I was saving one or two bytes by not having a blank line   
   EV> between the last line I wrote and the 73.   
      
   Blank lines do not count, at least not in the documents I write.   
      
   EV> I didn't know putting 73 in the last line of a message would cause   
   EV> any problems when I sent the .REP packet to the BBS.   
      
   No it doesn't cause any problems but it doesn't look very nice.   
      
   EV> Does putting a blank line before the 73 help any?   
      
   EV> 73   
      
   Sure does!   
      
   CU L8ER, Sam, OH0NC   
      
   aka Holger   
      
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