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

[Russ Allbery]

Yeah, I'm responding to really ancient e-mail.  I got way behind on INN
mail and it shows.  :/

Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu at internetcds.com> writes:

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

For this sort of application, I think you may want to just use a fairly
simple checksum that's much faster to compute.  MD5 feels like overkill
here.

I don't think article corruption is a frequent enough problem to bloat
overview with the data, though, at least in the common case.  Hm.  Might
be an interesting thought to let arbitrary Perl/Python code generate
additional overview information....  That would be a nice way of dealing
with the automatic keyword code too.

I'll drop that in TODO as a random idea.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>