Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!psuvax1!psuvax1!flee From: flee@shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: "Lines:" Message-ID: Date: 1 Sep 89 04:15:48 GMT References: <1989Aug31.204014.24061@paris.ics.uci.edu> Sender: news@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu Organization: Penn State University Computer Science Lines: 19 In <1989Aug31.204014.24061@paris.ics.uci.edu>, Mark Nagel writes: > I think some people are forgetting that we are striving toward a > better system of sifting through news. Deleting "sift" information > such as Lines or Organization is taking a step backwards. Do you really care about lines in an article or would you be happy with any indication of size? Character counts are cheap on Unix systems; it would be easy to add articlesize to "rn". NNTP readers would need changes to NNTP, hmm. Is Organization: really useful in sifting news? What can you sift with Organization that you can't sift otherwise? But if you're interested in news sifting, why not a Word-Index: header that lists all the words in the article by frequency? Does this sort of thing really belong in the header? -- Felix Lee flee@shire.cs.psu.edu, *!psuvax1!flee