Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Who generates the `Lines:' header field?
Message-ID: <1990Aug7.155622.2420@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Aug5.064837.23881@foster.avid.oz> <1990Aug5.075054.11185@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Aug6.061150.3939@csusac.csus.edu>
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 90 15:56:22 GMT

In article <1990Aug6.061150.3939@csusac.csus.edu> jetfuel@csusac.UUCP (Dave Jenks) writes:
>>Digressing for the moment to implementations, B News generated Lines:.
>>C News does not.
>
>I have cnews 041690 on my 3b1 (getting ready to connect to csusac),
>and in inews, the block beginning at line 181, is the code to produce
>the "Lines: " line.

It's there but commented out.  People who really want the silly header
can uncomment it.  We're not going to make it the default, though.
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