From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Mar 15 22: 7:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A88637B719 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 22:07:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA22259; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 23:01:17 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpdAAA4SaOxR; Thu Mar 15 23:01:07 2001 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA04414; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 23:07:01 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200103160607.XAA04414@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: ftpd SITE MD5 and "really bad links" To: jonathan@graehl.org (Jonathan Graehl) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 06:06:56 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG (freebsd-Arch) In-Reply-To: from "Jonathan Graehl" at Mar 15, 2001 05:12:29 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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