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Subject: Re: Why does Gnus generates Lines: header in mail?
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Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
> How about this patch?
> The Lines: header seems to be deprecated even for news in RFC1036bis.

Why do you want to get rid of it?  What purpose does removal of a
feature serve?

I find line count to be very useful in *Summary* because it gives me a
sense of how much babbling someone has done, and I also score up or
down on line count in some groups.

I always felt that the deprecation of Lines was due merely to Henry
Spencer's (and perhaps Geoff Collyer's) personal bias against it, for
which I have no explanation.