but no tear line, I noticed that the initial space before "* Origin" was absent
from the tail. It turns out the missing space character was being appended to
the end of the body text. While investigating why that was, I was dismayed at
the cruftiness of code but totally suprised that there was 80-column word-wrap
logic in here (!). Removed that word-wrap logic <blush> and fixed the origin
thing. More clean-up coming up next.