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From: CLT@PSUVMA.BITNET (Merlin of Chaos)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Article length lies
Message-ID: <36442CLT@PSUVMA>
Date: 17 Mar 88 20:35:27 GMT
References: <3171@chinet.UUCP> <8393@eddie.MIT.EDU> <1426@homxb.UUCP> <36064COK@PSUVMA> <8508@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Organization: Ghostwheel, Inc.
Lines: 663

The article cited claims to be 665 lines long for the same reason that this
one claims to be 665 lines long.

Simply, the software here at Penn State does not include a line count
when the article is sent.  Therefore, to prevent other people's software
from choking when no line count is found, we posters include a ficticious
line count.  A line count that is blatently wrong may be misleading, but
in the case of a posting to talk.bizarre, it may also be related to the
topic of the article.  The use of a line length of 666 for some time sprang
from a series of articles regarding the occult, and the subsequent flaming.

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