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From: leonard@qiclab.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: "Lines:"
Message-ID: <2594@qiclab.UUCP>
Date: 5 Sep 89 01:49:49 GMT
References: <FLEE.89Aug31150229@shire.cs.psu.edu> <1989Aug31.204014.24061@paris.ics.uci.edu> <FLEE.89Sep1001548@shire.cs.psu.edu>
Reply-To: leonard@qiclab.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Organization: Qic Laboratories, Portland, Oregon.
Lines: 15

Lines is rather useful. I may be willing to read 30 lines of ranting
on a subject that I'm not about to read 300 lines on. "Size" doesn't
convey quite the same info. Lines maps fairly well to "screens", 
whereas "size" doesn't give me any idea how many screens of junk I
have to wade thru.

As for Organization, it has often been the only way I could figure out
where a poster was (short of grepping the maps files). This can be very
important when reading "for sale" or other location dependant articles.

-- 
Leonard Erickson		...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard
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