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From: jef@well.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Anyone interested in end-to-end checksums in news?
Message-ID: <14596@well.UUCP>
Date: 16 Nov 89 19:46:49 GMT
Article-I.D.: well.14596
References: <1989Nov16.173546.6101@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: Jef Poskanzer <jef@well.sf.ca.us>
Organization: Paratheo-Anametamystikhood Of Eris Esoteric, Ada Lovelace Cabal
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In the referenced message, coolidge@cs.uiuc.edu wrote:
}                                  Message-id's seem to be the most
}common thing to get mashed in transmission.

Uh, doesn't this seem a little unlikely to you?  Doesn't it seem more
likely that bits all over the articles are getting munged with equal
probability, but we tend to notice when it happens to Message-Id's
since that results in duplicate articles?  In fact, precisely this
realization is what led me to propose Checksum: -- if it's true, then
munging is *far* more common than previously thought.
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Jef

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