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Re: [Pan-users] Thanks and comments/offer
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Duncan |
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Re: [Pan-users] Thanks and comments/offer |
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Sat, 15 Feb 2003 19:41:16 -0700 |
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On Sat 15 Feb 2003 09:41, Lee Reynolds posted as excerpted below:
> Another nice feature of NewsBin pro that should be easier to implement
> was the ability to eliminate ie.. not save images in a download
> directory that were exact duplicates. How difficult, or where would I
> look to add a few lines of code that would check for duplicate filenames
> (already done with the _copy_ tags) and a CRC-64 checksum on a selected
> saved file with the the temporary downloaded file, before it's saved?
This has been talked about a bit. The db switch could be used here, as well,
I suppose, as one way to do it would be to track MD5 or whatever checksum and
size, and probably have a three way always/ask/never option on what to do if
there was a match. (The never might turn off tracking, or that might be a
separate option, for the paranoid, and those that d/l such volumes that the
checksum database itself becomes a performance issue.)
A reason for that method, of course, would be that it would be name-neutral,
so renamed pix wouldn't be saved, either. Thus, the tracking at save. The
other alternative is to do a check if there's a name colision, which would
certainly be better than present, but would retain far more duplicates as
stuff is cycled out of the d/l target location for archiving, or across
different groups.
The flip side is the potential IDing of saved material now off the machine,
based on the tracking d/b. This has already come up in regards to yenc and
the way some readers handle it with similar anti-duplicate tracking. The
paraniod see that db, and wonder just what all goes into it, and if there's
an ulterior motive and reporting of the data, to someone at some point.
Formerly, I would have figured only certain folks in China, etc, would have
to worry about that, but with Ashcroft and co.'s anti-privacy anti-freedom
activities of late, one does have to wonder how long it will be until those
types of things are commonly used here, as well.
BTW, PLEASE turn off your HTML!! Do you realize how HTML has contributed to
security problems in mail and news? How many vulns would OE and Outlook have
if they didn't render HTML? How does ZERO strike you? HTML mail is a
favorite if the spammers, both because it allows tracking (if your reader
allows scripting or off-site fetching of images, for instance), and because
it allows them to do the equivilant of placing flashing lights around their
mail, in an effort to get attention. If it can't get my attention in plain
text, I have better things to do with my time. I filter HTML mail to my
trash folder (you'd be amazed at how effective just that single filter is for
spam), and that's where yours went. Only the fact that I scan the subject
lines b4 closing my mail client and having them auto-deleted, saved your post
to be read.
--
Duncan
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little
temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." --
Benjamin Franklin
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- Re: [Pan-users] ANN: Pan 0.13.3.93 "My Bloody Valentine", Eric Ortega, 2003/02/13
- Re: [Pan-users] ANN: Pan 0.13.3.93 "My Bloody Valentine", Steven Ellis, 2003/02/13
- Re: [Pan-users] ANN: Pan 0.13.3.93 "My Bloody Valentine", Søren Boll Overgaard, 2003/02/13
- Re: [Pan-users] ANN: Pan 0.13.3.93 "My Bloody Valentine", Lee Reynolds, 2003/02/13
- Re: [Pan-users] ANN: Pan 0.13.3.93 "My Bloody Valentine", Torstein Sunde, 2003/02/13
- [Pan-users] Re: ANN: Pan 0.13.3.93 "My Bloody Valentine", Michael Waters, 2003/02/14
- Re: [Pan-users] ANN: Pan 0.13.3.93 "My Bloody Valentine", Charles Kerr, 2003/02/14
- [Pan-users] Thanks and comments/offer, Lee Reynolds, 2003/02/15
- Re: [Pan-users] Thanks and comments/offer,
Duncan <=
- Re: [Pan-users] Thanks and comments/offer, Lee Reynolds, 2003/02/15
- Re: [Pan-users] Thanks and comments/offer, Frank Van Damme, 2003/02/16
- Re: [Pan-users] Thanks and comments/offer, Duncan, 2003/02/16
- Re: [Pan-users] Thanks and comments/offer, Frank Van Damme, 2003/02/16
- Re: [Pan-users] Thanks and comments/offer, Duncan, 2003/02/16
- Re: [Pan-users] Thanks and comments/offer, John LeMay, 2003/02/16
- Re: [Pan-users] Thanks and comments/offer, Frank Van Damme, 2003/02/17
- Re: [Pan-users] Thanks and comments/offer, Eric Ortega, 2003/02/21
- [Pan-users] Re: ANN: Pan 0.13.3.93 "My Bloody Valentine", Michael Waters, 2003/02/15
Re: [Pan-users] ANN: Pan 0.13.3.93 "My Bloody Valentine", Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom, 2003/02/14