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From: weemba@beaver.ics.uci.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Please make "Lines:" header required
Message-ID: <1989Sep3.064657.11248@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Date: 3 Sep 89 06:46:57 GMT
References: <1989Sep1.220844.300@sq.sq.com> <1989Sep2.200616.8524@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu>
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In-reply-to: coolidge@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu (John Coolidge)

In article <1989Sep2.200616.8524@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu>, coolidge@brutus (John Coolidge) writes:
>I think the Lines: feature in C News should still be optional, as long
>as Lines: is not a required header in the RFC. I also think the RFC
>needs a rewrite, and at that time it should be decided if Lines: is
>worth making required.

Without it being required, a newsreader can't do a buffered article
read-in and simultaneously give the reader a percentage.

What should I do about this in Gnews 2.1?  Include a "please wait,
this article won't be buffered due to C News idiocy" message?  Feh.
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-Matthew P Wiener (weemba@beaver.ics.uci.edu, weemba@math.berkeley.edu)