Re: External complaints about the deprecated Lines: header

Julien =C3=89LIE <[email protected]> writes:

> * LOTS of news servers generate a wrong lines count in their overview.

> This last issue is the most annoying.
> Diablo, Highlands servers, INN (< 2.5), amongst others, return that an ar=
ticle
> has 0 line in its overview data when no Lines: header is present.  It is =
the
> implemented behaviour of XOVER.
> That breaks things (especially filtering based on headers, before downloa=
ding
> articles).

Yeah, this has been a problem for years.  It's just becoming more
noticable now that new versions of INN don't generate the header, but some
servers haven't generated the header for quite some time and I see
supposedly 0-line articles all the time on old servers.

As you say, the only real solution is for people to upgrade their
software.  The Lines header was always rather broken.

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