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From: lmb@vicom.com (Larry Blair)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Anyone interested in end-to-end checksums in news?
Message-ID: <1989Nov16.191837.13850@vicom.com>
Date: 16 Nov 89 19:18:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: vicom.1989Nov16.191837.13850
References: <14594@well.UUCP> <14922@bfmny0.UU.NET>
Reply-To: lmb@vicom.COM (Larry Blair)
Organization: Vicom Systems Inc., Fremont, CA
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In article <14922@bfmny0.UU.NET> tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) writes:
=Checksumming could work if the following rules apply:
=
= * Start with the first nonblank line of the article body; do not
=   include headers.  (Think about the "Path" field.)

Who cares about the article body?  It is the headers that need to be protected,
particularly the Message-ID.
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Larry Blair   ames!vsi1!lmb   lmb@vicom.com