On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

Ahh, it seems to be a alpine bug. Probably brought on by alpine trying to
highlight the web addresses.

It doesn't always happen - between Rank 3 and Rank 4, you have an empty
line, and alpine reacted correctly to that one, but the "empty" line
between Rank 1 and Rank 2 actually contained a single TAB, and that
apparently made alpine really confused.

So never mind. I'll make a bug-report on alpine, it wasn't a bug in your
email.

FYI, exactly the same thing happens with pine.

/Martin