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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Who generates the `Lines:' header field?
Message-ID: <1990Aug11.031036.11586@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> <1990Aug7.155622.2420@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Aug10.164353.6188@foster.avid.oz>
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 90 03:10:36 GMT

In article <1990Aug10.164353.6188@foster.avid.oz> cbp@foster.avid.oz (Cameron Paine) writes:
>... Interestingly, his article had a Lines field.

It wasn't supplied here!  Some (all?) B Newses rewrite headers for you,
so the article presumably passed through such a site on its way to you.
Geoff and I consider unnecessary header rewriting to be a major sin, and
refuse to do it.

>As an aside, C News article IDs are more than 10 characters longer than
>their B News counterparts (on most installations). Thus, the size of a
>C News header is larger than a similar B News header. :-)

This will be fixed. :-)
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