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From: wisner@hayes.fai.alaska.edu (Bill Wisner)
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Subject: Re: Who generates the `Lines:' header field?
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Date: 6 Aug 90 08:13:41 GMT
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In-Reply-To: henry@zoo.toronto.edu's message of 6 Aug 90 02:47:49 GMT

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

>I find it easier still to glance at rn's percentage-of-article-yet-seen
>readout, which is character-count based and thus more accurately reflects
>how long it will take to splat it up on the screen.

I don't use rn. (For the record: C news with Lines: header generation
enabled and GNUS with Message-ID: header generation disabled.)

While a percentage readout is useful (and I do get one in GNUS once
I've started reading an article) I still like to have an idea of how
long an article is before I start reading it. For this, I'd rather
have a line count than a character count. It's easier for me to
mentally parse the former.

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