I appreciate the suggestion.  The main differences I can see are that you used --- rather than === to delimit sections and that you include the address and signature in the same section at the bottom rather than in two sections.  I also appreciate the suggestion to try a different interface.  However, I'm using MultiBit client to verify so I have three fields to fill out.  The first is "address", the second is "message", the third is "signature". I think that addres and signature are unambiguous.  you copy-paste the string into those fields with no surrounding whitespace or delimeters.  The message, however, is a little ambiguous.  Do I include the delimters?  Now I'm thinking "no" since you changed them.