[news.software.b] Lines field in Cnews?

mccoy@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jim Mccoy) (02/27/91)

Our site recently moved from Bnews to Cnews, and to my dismay the
Lines field dissappeared from local postings.

I would not have noticed this normally, but when all postins to the
local newsgroups start showing up in xrn with "none" in the lines
indicator it is not hard to put two and two together.  I did a little
digging into the code, but only far enough to see that the lines field
is included in the data structure for the header (i didn't get to the
part that actually puts it in...)

Can anyone out there help me?  I really need this field...



jim mccoy

henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (02/27/91)

In article <1991Feb26.173801.10742@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> mccoy@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jim Mccoy) writes:
>Can anyone out there help me?  I really need this field...

If you really want it, all you need to do is uncomment the relevant lines
in inews.  That will put it into local postings; nothing will insert it
into stuff coming in from outside.

Note that the Lines: header is, and always has been, optional.
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