Aazure.442 net.news utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!chico!harpo!cbosg!teklabs!tekmdp!azure!stevenm Thu Jan 28 11:21:54 1982 Lost Lines **** Start of Message **** (there should be a 'EOM' at the end) We have been getting a rash of messages which have the first 'n' lines removed. This seems (intuitively) like it could only happen as a result of a 'rnews' bug, not a transmission error. Transmission errors seldom elide data from the middle of a message. The most recent example of this was the recent net.ucds message. I would like to suggest the following: 1) A new header line in the News Article: 'Checksum: 456789' 2) An rnews request for certain articles. This would be (e.g.) rnews acceting a special argument which indicates that the standard input is a list of articles which should be re-transmitted to site 'x'. This would allow sites to automatically request retransmissions of garbled messages. 3) A site should not enter a garbled article into its history list or retransmit it, but should append the article name to a special list for retransmission request. Comments? S. McGeady ***** End of Message ***** (there should be a 'SOM' at the beginning) ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.