Re: Lines count in USEFOR

Russ Allbery <[email protected]> Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:58:45 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.usenet.format
Organization The Eyrie
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Julien =C3=89LIE <[email protected]> writes:

> 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.

I suspect the right thing to do there is to define the header feed as
providing the NNTP :lines and :bytes metadata as opposed to actual headers
from the article.

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Russ Allbery ([email protected])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>