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From: brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Who generates the `Lines:' header field?
Message-ID: <16864@ucsd.Edu>
Date: 6 Aug 90 16:31:01 GMT
References: <1990Aug5.075054.11185@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Aug5.234520.19583@hayes.fai.alaska.edu> <1990Aug6.024749.28260@zoo.toronto.edu>
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In article <1990Aug6.024749.28260@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>It is admittedly a nuisance that NNTP won't supply the size of the article,
>but to some extent this reflects a fundamental design bug in NNTP:  it tries
>to be a reading interface AND a posting interface AND a transmission interface
>all rolled into one, and consequently is not well thought out for any of
>those purposes :-).  (Rev 2 may be better.)

It won't be.