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Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow

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"Michael Black" <et472@ncf.ca> wrote in message 
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> On Sat, 12 Sep 2015, jmfbahciv wrote:
>
>> Dave Garland wrote:
>>> On 9/11/2015 7:48 AM, jmfbahciv wrote:
>>>> Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>>>> On 2015-09-09, Joe keane <jgk@panix.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Oops, there's another package that didn't make it.
>>>>>
>>>> Yup.  What's really odd is that my newsreader reported
>>>> the existence of n lines in the post.
>>>>
>>>> /BAH
>>>>
>>> Odd. Unless n=1, which is what mine showed.

That's pretty fucked given that its specified in the header.

>> It was more than one; it was a double-digit number.  I don't
>> have the exact number.  All posts from Google will show 1.

That is fucked, because its specified in the header.

>> I think the count I see are the numbmer of <CRLF>s in the post.

Likely.

>> Hancock's has always been one because he doesn't type
>> <RETURN>; I always type it becuase that's how I was taught and that's how 
>> DEC code and documents were entered.

> My newsreader gives me an estimate of the size of a message.

Mine does both, gives the size in K and the number of lines.

And gets the number lines right with groups.google posts too.

> But I've seen that change, once I actually read the message, the number 
> changes to match the actual size of the message.

Not surprising if it initially has just the header and can't
work out the actual size until it has downloaded it when
reading online. 

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all those packages still need to be delivered somehow jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2015-09-09 19:02 +0000
  Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-09-10 18:11 +0000
    Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-09-11 12:48 +0000
      Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2015-09-11 09:34 -0500
        Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-09-12 13:24 +0000
          Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-09-12 11:17 -0400
            Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow "Jim Thomas" <JT@nospam.com> - 2015-09-13 04:35 +1000
              Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-09-12 13:50 -0500
                Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow "Jim Thomas" <JT@nospam.com> - 2015-09-13 06:47 +1000
                Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-09-13 13:43 +0000
                Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow "Jim Thomas" <JT@nospam.com> - 2015-09-14 04:22 +1000
                Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-09-14 12:50 +0000
                Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow "Jim Thomas" <JT@nospam.com> - 2015-09-15 04:37 +1000
                Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow Greymaus <mausg@mail.com> - 2015-09-14 19:13 +0000
                Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow "Jim Thomas" <JT@nospam.com> - 2015-09-15 09:10 +1000
                Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2015-09-13 22:45 +0200
                Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2015-09-12 16:59 -0500
          Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-09-14 13:32 +0000
            Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow "Jim Thomas" <JT@nospam.com> - 2015-09-15 04:46 +1000
              Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-09-14 19:55 +0000
                Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2015-09-14 18:12 -0500
                Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow "Jim Thomas" <JT@nospam.com> - 2015-09-15 09:16 +1000
            Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-09-15 13:07 +0000
              Re: all those packages still need to be delivered somehow mrr@sambook.reistad.name (Morten Reistad) - 2015-09-15 16:15 +0200

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