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Re: Content-Transfer-Encoding and yEnc

2002-04-03 12:01:17

That's pretty much the approach that has been focused on in the
news.software.nntp newsgroup, where most of this discussion originated.
What is being considered is an application/partial (or /whatever du jour)
where each fragment identifies a byte-range. If a large multi-part file is
posted and a fragment is lost, anybody can repost the fragment and the gap
will be filled.

I just hope they put a MIC on the contents, otherwise there's a fairly
good way to attack (say) compiled windows programs that get posted.