Re: Lines count in USEFOR

Julien ÉLIE <[email protected]> Sat, 5 Dec 2009 13:27:47 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.ietf.usenet.format
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Hi,

> 3.3.1.  Lines
>
>   The Lines header field indicates the number of lines in the <body>
>   (as defined in [RFC5322]) of the article.
>
>   lines           =3D  "Lines:" SP *WSP 1*DIGIT *WSP CRLF
>
>   The line count is the number of CRLF separators in the <body>.
>
>   Historically, this header field was used by the NNTP [RFC3977]
>   overview facility, but its use for this purpose is now deprecated.
>   As a result, this header field is to be regarded as obsolescent, and
>   it is likely to be removed entirely in a future version of this
>   standard.  All agents SHOULD ignore it and SHOULD NOT generate it.

Hmm...
And what happens to currently existing headers feeds?  (look at Diablo
for instance)

The Lines: header is still useful (and probably also the Bytes: one)
to have an idea of the length of the body of the article.

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