From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!zeppo!whuxlb!eric
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Re: Message clutter
Article-I.D.: whuxlb.361
Posted: Tue Jul 27 17:05:27 1982
Received: Mon Aug  2 04:43:50 1982
References: ihuxp.192


AHH, BUT: how many of those 33 lines were just blanks lines?
a blank line is NOT 80 x octal 040, but (1 x octal 012 + 1x octal 015).

so, 33 lines could be as little as 66 chars. show me a count of characters,
and i'll bet that percentage goes up to more than 4 percent!!