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From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: net.sources.mac considered harmful?
Message-ID: <2452@ism780c.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 31-May-86 01:13:07 EDT
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Posted: Sat May 31 01:13:07 1986
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Part of the problems might be due to the size of source postings.
I used to send mac stuff from callan to cithep, by mail, and there
would be errors.  The most common error was for some random part
of some random line to be replaced with part of the "From" line.
I never saw this happen on small things.

I never found out where this was happening, but I wouldn't be
surprised to find out that whoever was having trouble with
large mail messages would also have trouble with large usenet
postings.

Maybe we need a format for postings that puts a line number and a CRC
on each line.  Then when a posting gets garbled, it might not be too
expensive to repost just the lines that got garbled.  If we are lucky,
it is only one or two machines that are trashing things, so that everyone
will get the same lines garbled.
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Tim Smith               sdcrdcf!ism780c!tim || ima!ism780!tim