Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 06:06:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jonathan@graehl.org (Jonathan Graehl) Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG (freebsd-Arch) Subject: Re: ftpd SITE MD5 and "really bad links" Message-ID: <200103160607.XAA04414@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <NCBBLOALCKKINBNNEDDLCEJGDMAA.jonathan@graehl.org> from "Jonathan Graehl" at Mar 15, 2001 05:12:29 PM
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> I don't see your "4 bits in error in your lossy-compressed media > file is not so bad" argument as an answer to my question, nor are > all file transfers sending lossy-compressed media where you don't > care about errors. Well, then, if we're concerned over bit errors not capable of being caught by TCP/IP, rather than fixing TCP/IP, we better add MD5 to SMTP, UUCP, POP3, IMAP4, FSP, GOPHER, ARCHIE, FTAM, NFS, CODA, HTTP, AFS, and every other internet protocol, so that TCP/IP can be lossy for the rest of time and never have to change. After all, it's better to "fix" every program that uses a lossy transport than it is to fix a lossy transport, isn't it? Sheesh... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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