Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!umd5!purdue!decwrl!ucbvax!SIMTEL20.ARPA!W8SDZ From: W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.ARPA (Keith Petersen) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Source code newsgroup for MS-DOS Message-ID: Date: 29 May 88 20:16:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 16 John, when Usenet can assure accurate and non-tracted transmission of newsgroups I will agree to clear-text postings. Meantime ARCs are the only way to be sure if it's all there and not garbled. It's a real shame that the Unix world can't agree on a common checksum or crc-checking program. The Unix "sum" command produces at least two different results depending on what version of Unix your host is running. The real problem is that the news software doesn't have any error checking to know when /usr/spool/news fills up. According to some net wizards that's the real cause of truncated postings. On the Arpanet our hosts signal the sender that there was an error and the transfer should be tried again later. --Keith