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From: dtynan@sultra.UUCP (Der Tynan)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: More article munging - who's doing this?
Message-ID: <2584@sultra.UUCP>
Date: 20 Oct 88 03:02:12 GMT
References: <25047@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <1118@vsi1.UUCP>
Organization: Tynan Computers, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <1118@vsi1.UUCP>, lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair) writes:
> 
> Maybe there should be a "Crc:" field in the header.  Old news versions
> would ignore it, but the new versions could throw away the article and
> generate a "sendme" for the Message-ID.
> -- 
> Larry Blair   ames!vsi1!lmb   lmb%vsi1.uucp@ames.arc.nasa.gov

This won't work.  If the CRC is corrupt, then NOTHING in the article is OK,
including the Message-ID.  What happens if the modem damage does something
like putting a tab in the Message-ID (sound familiar? - how many sendme's
does it take to get a microsoft article?? :-).  If the CRC is shot, then
bye-bye article.   Of course, why fix the problem by changing news, when
the *real* problem is a buggy uucp connection.  Of course this isn't a
perfect world, or anything...
						- Der
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