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Originally posted by SNA
Ok Cool...

Im using Cnews.. and it isnt adding the Lines: ## their from the posts coming off the Forums... Im guessing there is a config file somewhere to enable it...

Maybe you want to take that into condiseration...

If it doesnt find a Lines: then it should do something other consider it a binary..

The only other way to determine if it's a binary post is by your own configurable spam filters. The obvious one to check for is 'begin 644'. This is actually added by default. The lines check is really only an additional check and a way for you limit the size of messages you want to download.

You say the server isn't adding the Lines field. As you mention, it is probably a configuration issue. What about other articles, or are you receiving a full IHAVE usenet feed? If it's just acting as a client to an upstream news server then you will probably see the Lines header on all other posts. If the issue is only with articles that are posted directly to your cnews server then there's not really a problem as when that message is propogated to another server, the field will be added.

The other point of course is why would we care if forum posts have it or not. They don't even get parsed by that code. We don't need to check them as we're not even downloading them.