Four old puzzles #1

In , James Dow Allen
wrote:

I think one reason rec.puzzles has become less popular
is the SPAM onslaught. Why don't we find an otherwise
idle ng, perhaps rec.aquaria.freshwater.cichlids as I
have done here, begin cross-posting there, and hope
the spammers don't follow?

I wonder how the cichlid fans will feel about that, when they get back
from their decade-long expedition to Cichlidia to find their
newsgroup stuffed to the gunwales with puzzles?

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Richard gave a hint for #2, so I'd better give a
hint for "Four old puzzles #1".
I won't bother to rot13 the hint.

The entire message (that is, the lines
beginning " " above) is a sequence of
words that satisfies a constraint.

I guessed all that.

(*Each* contiguous
subsequence of words in the message satisfies the same
constraint.)

That's additional information, but I'm not sure how useful it is. That
is, I don't immediately see an application for the new knowledge.

The *meanings* of the message and
the individual words are *irrelevant.*

I guessed that, too.

My full name
"James Dow Allen" satisfies the constraint, but
"Richard Heathfield" does not, nor does "James Allen".

Bang goes Theory #6.

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