On Fri, 8 Nov 1991 14:00:15 -0800 (PST) you said:
I believe that checksums on contents other than BASE64 are misguided and I
fully intend to ignore them. If you want reliable data, use BASE64. The
other encodings, *including* QUOTED-PRINTABLE, are not mechanisms for passing
reliable data.
Yes yes yes yes.... *Mandatory* checksums *inside* base-64 :
- stay there if the content is 'pasted' or saved elsewhere ;
- are always present, and always to be checked by an algorithm that's well
documented and available on all systems ;
- can be designed to take record boundaries into account easily ;
- do not prevent anyone to *also* put an application level checksum elsewhere,
using system specific algorithms if they like it so.
/AF