Den ons 26 aug. 2020 kl 21:17 skrev Mike Hammett <[email protected]>:
> Text-only was great in 1985. > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > Midwest Internet Exchange > The Brothers WISP > Being able to publish and/or send a really small file from computer A to computer B unchanged in this day and age is still a required feat if you want to appear as an internet professional. It doesn't matter if it was "change spaces to tabs", "html made carriage returns where a space was found" or if it was "make two - - chars into one single utf-8 -- token" or "spell check/correction edited fnd_trgl_dsk() to find_triangle_disk()" in your C function. You did not ship what you had produced in that diff. If you can't send data 100% with the tools of your choice, the blame is on you, not on the recipient who did the checking FOR YOU and notified you about mangled transmissions. So when your file integrity check or vpn software says "we dropped the incoming data due to broken checksums", the correct answer is not for the receiving end to disable checksums. Really. To even have to tell this to people... -- May the most significant bit of your life be positive.
