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In article <1992Oct3.191106.18867@dscomsf.desy.de> Hallam@zeus02.desy.de writes:
>When articles get split up they often can only be pieced back together manually.

This seems to indicate stupider software than the fact that some modems
lose large articles. 

>I have programs which assist in this process,

Obviously the way to go.

>but even those only get to about 90% accuracy. 

???

>There are many occasions in which one part in a ten part post gets
>lost. In this case the whole article is useless. It would waste fewer 
>resources here if either the whole article arrived, or none of it did.

Hold the pieces until all arrive.  Piece it together then.  If you
don't get the last piece w/in a reasonable time, junk the article.
You keep 9/10ths on you disk for a couple days max.

However if we have to keep redialing to get a loooong (unsplit) article
and bomb repeatedly 9/10th the way through it the (admittedly stupid)
software tries again.

Which is the larger waste?  Phone line time or disk space?  

That is a purely subjective evaluation.

IMHO I'd rather collect pieces and junk things if the last one
doesn't arrive than keep redialing for something that may never
arrive in one piece.....



		-Richard Hartman
		hartman@ulogic.COM

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