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* Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>  on Sun, 29 Sep 2002
| Do enough mail clients generate accurate Lines headers to make this
| worthwhile?

I do not know.  I suppose that depends on the definition of "enough".

| It shouldn't.  It should be using overview for that information.

Overview is a feature of the NNTP client specifications.  Not all news
readers use NNTP.  For example, a reader looking at a local spool can only
get the Lines count from a header field or by grabbing the article in its
entirety and counting.

YMMV.

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