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From: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Suggestion for checksum on articles
Message-ID: <626@astrovax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Jul-85 01:07:05 EDT
Article-I.D.: astrovax.626
Posted: Thu Jul 25 01:07:05 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 26-Jul-85 07:21:37 EDT
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Reply-To: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok)
Organization: Princeton Univ. Astrophysics
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I rather wish that there were some sort of article consistency check, like
a checksum or maybe even just the line number, and if a "good" copy of an
article arrived at a site after a "bad" copy that the "good" copy replace
the "bad" copy rather than being rejected as a "duplicate article".

The branchs in the network give it a potential for redundancy.  However, with
the present arrangement if a article is garbled somewhere the garbled copy is
still the one propagated if it arrives at a branch point first.
-- 
Bill Sebok			Princeton University, Astrophysics
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