Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1993 00:00:00 -0800

  C News sites can turn on Lines: header creation (we do here), but
  the default has it turned off.  I wish more would turn it on, as
  several newsreaders put it to use, and it's the most easily
  available metric of article size when showing the user a menu of
  available articles.

From: Henry Spencer
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1993 00:00:00 -0800

  We're unenthusiastic about Lines:, which is why it's off by default
  and little-documented.  *The* most easily available metric of
  article size is not line count -- which is often slightly wrong, by
  the way -- but byte count, which is available without even parsing
  the headers.

  You can tell C News to add Lines: headers to articles *posted*
  locally, but C News has no provision for adding headers to traffic
  coming in from other sites.  [Specifically, search for the string
  "uncomment" in inews, and uncomment those lines. --bw]

From: Peter Wemm <peter@dialix.oz.au>
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1993 00:00:00 -0800

  You'll always get the lines header if you run INN.

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