Re: Lines count in USEFOR

[Russ Allbery <rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Julien ÉLIE <julien@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 (rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>