What about MD5 hashing the body of the message...

[Jaye Mathisen]

To give a minimal level of non-corruptedness of the article?


Might be a boon for newsreading clients.

Of course, it's not the same as digitally signing the article or anything,
but for quick-and-dirty, it may be viable.

Stuff it in the overview database perhaps...

Was just reading in n.s.nntp about corrupted articles running around that
passed through Cidera, and was bouncing around ideas on how to catch it
relatively painlessly.