Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!utstat!geoff
From: geoff@utstat.uucp (Geoff Collyer)
Subject: Lines: yet again (Re: Supersedes problems with rapid-fire articles)
Message-ID: <1989Aug31.035929.2430@utstat.uucp>
Organization: Statistics, U. of Toronto
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 89 03:59:29 GMT

Once more: we never intended to promise that C news will do all the
same things as B news, so talk of "gratuitous changes" is meaningless.
We didn't start from a B news base.  We simply did not implement some
things that B news did implement.  If you want B news (or A news or
notes), you know where to find it.

We feel that grafting Lines: headers (indeed most headers) onto passing
articles is in poor taste.  In fact Lines: does appear in the
"cherished RFC" (1036), where is it marked "optional".  One more time:

	The behaviour of B news (or C news or A news or notes or NNTP)
	is not a specification for news software, especially not for
	message format.
-- 
Geoff Collyer		utzoo!utstat!geoff, geoff@utstat.toronto.edu