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From: rick@uunet.UU.NET (Rick Adams)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Daily news volume disagrees w/uunet stats
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Date: 14 Jul 89 04:06:43 GMT
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The uunet stats only count the body of the article, not the headers.

Whether this is the correct way or not, its what was finally
decided after much argument several years ago. No one could
agree on what was 'right'.


I think of it as the amount of information being transferred rather
than the amount of disk space.