From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/46825 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Why does Gnus generates Lines: header in mail? Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 12:45:46 -0700 Organization: The Eyrie Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033328864 19446 127.0.0.1 (29 Sep 2002 19:47:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 19:47:44 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17vk2Z-00053W-00 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 21:47:43 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 17vk1B-00041D-00; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 14:46:17 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 29 Sep 2002 14:46:58 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA23454 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 14:46:47 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 5620 invoked by alias); 29 Sep 2002 19:46:01 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 5615 invoked from network); 29 Sep 2002 19:46:01 -0000 Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (171.64.13.23) by gnus.org with SMTP; 29 Sep 2002 19:46:01 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 1012 invoked by uid 50); 29 Sep 2002 19:45:47 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Michael Cook's message of "Sun, 29 Sep 2002 14:51:14 -0400") Original-Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) XEmacs/21.4 (Honest Recruiter, sparc-sun-solaris2.6) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:46825 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:46825 Michael Cook writes: > Russ Allbery writes: >> The header is completely, 100% worthless. > i think the original intention was that you could get an indication > of how big the article is without having to examine the body. Yes, but this was completely obsoleted by overview, which does the same thing. (Lines is a purely Usenet thing; it was never an e-mail thing that I've ever heard apart from some e-mail clients picking it up from Usenet.) -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)