On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 13:19:40 -0600, Robin Laing <Robin.Laing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > True but rar will also create parity blocks to check and repair the > split files. I find it difficult to believe that this is the right place to introduce redundancy. Including a hash with each part so that you can detect broken ones is useful. Sending out multiple copies seems like a waste of bandwidth. And if you really want to do this, wouldn't it be easier to just post them multiple times?