Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C News missing Lines: header
Message-ID: <1989Jul21.165544.15126@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1989Jul20.054808.8724@tarpit.uucp>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 89 16:55:44 GMT

In article <1989Jul20.054808.8724@tarpit.uucp> rd@tarpit.UUCP (Bob Thrush) writes:
>  I have noticed that all the active articles posted from C News 
>systems have a "Lines:" header (except for the first few I did :-<).  
>Yet the source distribution has the pertinent code in relay/sh/inews 
>commented out.  In fact, it appears that code (when uncommented)
>calculates one line too many.  Has everybody quietly added the
>Lines: header to C News?  (Even Henry's postings have Lines.)

Some people have indeed uncommented the code (indeed, there is a fix coming
to fix the off-by-one error!).  However, a good many sites haven't.  We
certainly haven't.  What you are seeing is B News sites gratuitously
inserting this header into articles that are just passing through.
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1961-1969: 8 years of Apollo.  |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
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