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From: chuck@dworkin.wustl.edu (Chuck Cranor)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Who generates the `Lines:' header field?
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Date: 14 Aug 90 02:38:43 GMT
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In article <1990Aug11.031036.11586@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>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.

Oh, I consider it a feature.  I like all my news presented in the same
format and header order.  I guess you could argue that such tasks should
be done by a news reader.  However my news reader (rn/trn) doesn't
seem to do that.  Until recently I've been stuck on a C news system
with my headers in the "wrong" order, no "Lines:", and I found it 
really annoying.

I guess you see it differently, but in my mind by making C news behave
this way you've broken a standard feature which I was used to in 
order to bully me into upgrading my news reading software. :-) 

cheers,
Chuck

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