Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 10:17:21 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, David O'Brien <TrimYourCc@NUXI.com>, Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [PATCH] add a SITE MD5 command to ftpd Message-ID: <3AB0F921.3E8FC55C@softweyr.com> References: <20010314084651.A23104@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <200103142342.QAA09233@usr08.primenet.com> <20010314161555.A4984@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20010314185026.C7683@dragon.nuxi.com> <200103150256.f2F2u1b37896@earth.backplane.com> <p0501040ab6d5f1cb0b56@[128.113.24.47]> <200103150606.f2F66Vj38988@earth.backplane.com>
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Matt Dillon wrote:
>
> :If you're going to download it anyway, then there is zero point
> :to doing the MD5. The way I'm reading this option, the ONLY
> :reason to do an MD5 is to try and *-AVOID-* doing a download.
> :That is all I want it for, at least.
>
> I'm just trying to think of the situations where a user would do
> this on a regular basis, and I simply can't imagine that
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