gpg 1.0.2 error: unexpected armor

[Lars Hecking]

 This is what gpg 1.0.2 tells me when operating on a message posted to
 bugtraq last Wednesday (<20000726014711.14395.qmail@securityfocus.com>):

gpg: unexpected armor:-------------------------------------------------------------\n
gpg: invalid radix64 character 2e skipped
[170 more lines]
gpg: invalid radix64 character 3e skipped
gpg: invalid radix64 character 5f skipped
gpg: CRC error; 04a824 - 244451
gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=4e) near 141

 The problem seems to be that the message (signed with pgp 2.6.3ia) contains
 a line

-------------------------------------------------------------

 starting in the first column, and gpg seems to treat this line like one of

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

 Is this analysis correct? What can be done in such a situation?