On 13/02/2011 10:56 PM, RustY © wrote:
On 13/02/2011 11:34, Gary R. Schmidt wrote:
it's the *original* way Usenet messages were represented, simply as
lines, because usenet was originally a) text only, and, b) there was a
line limit of 75 characters enforced by all of the client software[1].

The trouble is, it is no longer relevant with colour photos and video.

Yes, but there is a "Lines:" header - which is not considered to be
reliable, but it is in the RFC - so it's easy to just use that.

Working out the actual size of the messages requires "doing things."

Cheers,
Gary B-)