lib/PublicInbox/Smsg.pm | 4 ----

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/Smsg.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/Smsg.pm
index 9e363a112c04c17c326286dd706edb7d97aa9652..a7ee2e409391d4729d800b45c31d20563ff29fe6 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/Smsg.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/Smsg.pm
@@ -90,10 +90,6 @@ 	my $self = bless {}, __PACKAGE__;
 	psgi_cull(load_expand($self, $mitem->get_document));
 }
 
-# :bytes and :lines metadata in RFC 3977
-sub bytes ($) { $_[0]->{bytes} }
-sub lines ($) { $_[0]->{lines} }
-
 sub __hdr ($$) {
 	my ($self, $field) = @_;
 	$self->{lc($field)};