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Also known as: Lines
An optional header stating how many lines the body contains. Readers once used it to judge whether a post was worth fetching over a slow dial-up link, and it still appears in overview data beside the byte count. Nothing recomputes the number in transit, so it is not authoritative, and a fair amount of current posting software omits it in favor of the byte count.
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