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From: wisner@hayes.fai.alaska.edu (Bill Wisner)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Who generates the `Lines:' header field?
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Date: 5 Aug 90 23:45:20 GMT
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In-Reply-To: henry@zoo.toronto.edu's message of 5 Aug 90 07:50:54 GMT

henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:

>The size of the article, in bytes, is generally more useful and is
>available to newsreaders at the cost of a query to the filesystem,
>without cluttering up every article with another header.

Not over NNTP. And at any rate, it's not my news reader that cares
about the size of an article -- it's *me*. I like to have an idea of
what I'm getting into, and I generally find it easier to grok a line
count than a character count.

Bill Wisner <wisner@hayes.fai.alaska.edu> Gryphon Gang Fairbanks AK 99775
bnug, dude
yeah
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