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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Anyone interested in end-to-end checksums in news?
Message-ID: <1989Nov18.185648.3525@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 18 Nov 89 18:56:48 GMT
References: <1989Nov16.173546.6101@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Followup-To: news.software.b
Organization: North Coast Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, OH
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Checksumming can't be relied upon in the case of ASCII <-> EBCDIC translations
anyway -- EBCDIC is not a single character set, but a related family of
character sets which are each slightly different from the other.  Worse, there
are characters in EBCDIC which don't map to ASCII (which may affect postings
originating from BITNET sites) and characters in ASCII which map to two or
possibly more characters in EBCDIC (consider "|").

++Brandon
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