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Re: base64 and checksums

1991-10-30 15:24:20
I'm not keen on adding a checksum field to the Content-Transfer-Encoding
header.  Clearly only the base64 can profit from having a checksum
available.

This is far from clear. quoted-printable and binary definitely can benefit
from checksums. For example, I can, and do, create quoted-printable objects 
that are totally resistant to BITNET munging even a single byte of them.

binary is an even better example, of course.

As such, I think the way to proceed is simple:

I disgree with your approach, given that your initial assertion is, in my
opinion, false.

                                        Ned


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