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    > (Remember that error messages should not end with periods.)

    I know the general rule, but for a multi-sentence error message, it
    seems strange not to terminate the last sentence with a period.

I agree with you about error messages that are effectively paragraphs
rather than lines.  The example we were looking at was a single line.