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"Todd A. Jacobs" <tajacobs@nvbell.net> writes:

> Removing it by hand worked, as did the --comment "" approach. However, I
> was wondering why it was allowable to modify it manually. I thought
> anything between the beginning and ending tear lines was supposed to be
> "protected." Is the comment line an exception?

No. The tearlines themself and all the headerlines are just
informational and not signed. Signed stuff starts with the line
following the first blank line up to the lineending before the second
tear line.


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