weemba@beaver.ics.uci.edu (Matthew P Wiener) (09/03/89)
In article <1989Sep2.200616.8524@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu>, coolidge@brutus (John Coolidge) writes: >I think the Lines: feature in C News should still be optional, as long >as Lines: is not a required header in the RFC. I also think the RFC >needs a rewrite, and at that time it should be decided if Lines: is >worth making required. Without it being required, a newsreader can't do a buffered article read-in and simultaneously give the reader a percentage. What should I do about this in Gnews 2.1? Include a "please wait, this article won't be buffered due to C News idiocy" message? Feh. -- -Matthew P Wiener (weemba@beaver.ics.uci.edu, weemba@math.berkeley.edu)