Re: [Pan-users] Re: Re: Ctrl+W keyboard shortcut!

[Charles Kerr]

On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 10:05:11PM -0400, gaw zay wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Jeff Vian wrote:
> 
>>> Thinking about this a sec... don't SFV files contain some kind of hash
>>> that pertains to the files they describe?  Could Pan use that to
>>> determine whether we should bother to download a particular file?

> You'd have to download the file and decode it to know if the md5sum
> is right or not.

Yup, you couldn't rely on the SFV because it could be hard to find,
or deleted, or -- in most cases -- not posted in the first place.

But, if Pan ran an md5sum on file and file_2, and they matched,
it could at least delete file_2.