From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: Why does Gnus generates Lines: header in mail?
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 11:35:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ylit0ood8a.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vxk7kh4khmm.fsf@cinnamon.vanillaknot.com> (Karl Kleinpaste's message of "Sun, 29 Sep 2002 10:14:25 -0400")
Karl Kleinpaste <karl@charcoal.com> writes:
> Why do you want to get rid of it? What purpose does removal of a
> feature serve?
It saves pointless work and a small amount of article size, and it makes
it less likely that news readers will get confused by incorrect Lines
headers. The header is completely, 100% worthless.
> 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.
All that information comes from the overview data, which is guaranteed to
be correct. There's no such guarantee for the Lines header, and you'll
still be able to do all these things without that header.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-29 18:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-29 14:01 Simon Josefsson
2002-09-29 14:14 ` Karl Kleinpaste
2002-09-29 14:32 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-09-29 17:08 ` Karl Kleinpaste
2002-09-29 17:51 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-09-30 1:31 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-09-30 1:57 ` Russ Allbery
2002-09-30 19:15 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-10-01 2:11 ` Russ Allbery
2002-10-01 3:27 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-10-01 3:38 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-10-01 3:57 ` Russ Allbery
2002-09-30 3:08 ` greg andruk
2002-09-30 19:17 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-09-30 11:23 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-10-07 21:58 ` Florian Weimer
2002-10-07 23:20 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-10-09 14:04 ` Per Abrahamsen
2002-10-02 16:46 ` Per Abrahamsen
2002-09-29 18:35 ` Russ Allbery [this message]
2002-09-29 18:51 ` Michael Cook
2002-09-29 19:45 ` Russ Allbery
2002-09-29 15:14 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-09-29 16:59 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-09-29 20:15 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-09-29 20:21 ` Jorgen Schaefer
2002-09-29 20:30 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-09-29 21:43 ` Jorgen Schaefer
2002-09-30 12:03 ` Clemens Fischer
2002-09-30 14:19 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-09-30 14:43 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-09-30 22:04 ` Clemens Fischer
2002-10-01 0:22 ` Josh Huber
2002-10-01 9:54 ` Clemens Fischer
2002-10-01 10:45 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-10-02 16:52 ` Paul Jarc
2002-10-01 14:05 ` Josh Huber
2002-10-01 18:12 ` Clemens Fischer
2002-10-02 18:38 ` Paul Jarc
2002-10-03 0:06 ` mail-followup-to, was " Clemens Fischer
2002-10-03 16:13 ` Paul Jarc
2002-10-02 16:49 ` Paul Jarc
2002-10-02 19:44 ` [despammed] " clemens fischer
2002-10-02 20:25 ` Paul Jarc
2002-10-02 23:16 ` Clemens Fischer
2002-10-03 16:30 ` Paul Jarc
2002-10-06 13:30 ` Clemens Fischer
2002-10-07 16:34 ` Paul Jarc
2002-10-07 23:44 ` Clemens Fischer
2002-10-08 15:34 ` Paul Jarc
2002-10-02 18:48 ` Reiner Steib
2002-10-03 0:13 ` Clemens Fischer
2002-10-08 12:07 ` Reiner Steib
2002-10-01 11:06 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-10-01 11:54 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-10-02 4:41 ` Dan Christensen
2002-12-29 15:59 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-12-30 16:36 ` Romain FRANCOISE
2002-12-30 16:50 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-12-30 22:06 ` Romain FRANCOISE
2002-12-30 20:46 ` No References header when using drafts (was: Why does Gnus generates Lines: header in mail?) Reiner Steib
2002-12-30 21:06 ` No References header when using drafts Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-12-30 21:59 ` Reiner Steib
2002-12-30 22:23 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-12-31 14:43 ` Reiner Steib
2003-01-01 17:57 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-01-01 18:49 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-12-31 15:23 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-01-02 17:05 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-01-02 18:30 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-01-02 20:53 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-01-02 21:04 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-01-03 17:48 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-01-02 21:30 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-01-06 19:27 ` References Header (Re: Why does Gnus generates Lines: header in mail?) Mark Thomas
2003-01-07 4:56 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-01-07 13:11 ` Mark Thomas
2003-01-07 18:12 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-01-08 4:10 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-01-07 12:49 ` References Header Reiner Steib
2003-01-08 3:55 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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