Mark Brader:
The Lines: header is optional according to the applicable RFC, so the
authors of C News didn't *have* to provide it.  They feel that the count
of lines in the body of an article is not the most useful way to measure
its size, and that if you disagree, then you should arrange for your
newsreader to count the number of lines in each article each time you
read it.

The Lines: header can be generated for articles posted at your site;
look in inject/pnews (or, if what you have is older than the Performance
Release (early 1992), inject/inews) for the comment "# sop to msb, just
uncomment to use", and uncomment the next few lines.  However, since C
News does not rewrite header lines, no way is provided to get a Lines:
header added to incoming articles.  These will have a Lines: header only
if they were created with one initially, or if they passed through a site
running software such as B News that does add it.

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