From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/46823 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 11:35:49 -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 1033324920 11097 127.0.0.1 (29 Sep 2002 18:42:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 18:42:00 +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 17vj0x-0002sq-00 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 20:41:59 +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 17vivL-0003hV-00; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 13:36:11 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 29 Sep 2002 13:36:52 -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 NAA23367 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 13:36:42 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 4347 invoked by alias); 29 Sep 2002 18:35:56 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 4342 invoked from network); 29 Sep 2002 18:35:56 -0000 Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (171.64.13.23) by gnus.org with SMTP; 29 Sep 2002 18:35:56 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 643 invoked by uid 50); 29 Sep 2002 18:35:49 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Karl Kleinpaste's message of "Sun, 29 Sep 2002 10:14:25 -0400") Original-Lines: 19 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:46823 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:46823 Karl Kleinpaste 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)