Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!cica!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvax1!flee From: flee@shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: "Lines:" (Re: Supersedes problems with rapid-fire articles) Message-ID: Date: 31 Aug 89 19:02:29 GMT References: <5200@looking.on.ca> <1989Aug30.052459.1166@vicom.com> <1989Aug30.204324.2675@paris.ics.uci.edu> <1989Aug30.225332.18770@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu> <1989Aug31.174054.15398@paris.ics.uci.edu> Organization: Penn State University Computer Science Lines: 10 In-reply-to: nagel@ics.uci.edu's message of 31 Aug 89 17:40:54 GMT Lines: may be nice information but it's useless for transport. Newsreaders could easily count lines for you; characters if you think linecounting is too expensive. Characters is more interesting anyway. (n.b., characters are more expensive to count with record-oriented files, e.g., IBM mainframes.) Organization: is also pretty useless, misleading to novices, and often duplicated in the signature. Anyone interested in zapping it too? -- Felix Lee flee@shire.cs.psu.edu, *!psuvax1!flee