Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 23:40:44 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Adam L. Beberg" <beberg@distributed.net>
Subject: [RC5] Email buffer flushing and fetching now available for RC5-64

Good news below, film at 11

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You now have another method for flushing and fetching your RC5-64 buffers.
You may attach a buffer to be flushed to an email sent to
"flush@distributed.net", and the blocks will be flushed for you and a short
"receipt" sent back to you (Note: A lot of people have asked if this will
cause your blocks not to count on stats.. Not so. They will be credited to
you as usual.) You may also request buffers via email with
"fetch@distributed.net". We hope this will help people running clients where
access to a normal proxy is limited.
Here is a brief summary of how to use this new flush/fetch method:

To flush a buffer of completed blocks:

1) Create an email to "flush@distributed.net"
2) Attach your buffer to be flushed using either UUencoding or MIME Base64
encoding.  It must be called "buff-out.rc5"
3) Send the email


That's all there is to flushing. The blocks will be flushed to a personal
proxy, and you can view the statistics for the proxy at
http://www.interlog.com/~tcharron/myrc5home/ The pages are updated once a
day.


To Fetch a buffer of new blocks:

1) Create and email to "fetch@distributed.net"
2) Determine the size of the blocks and buffers you need. The default is 100
blocks of 2^28 keys.
3) If you need a buffer of a different size, you can use the "blocksize=xx"
option to change the size of the blocks you will receive, and the
"numblocks=yyyy" to change the number of blocks you will receive. Simple
place the options anywhere in the body of your message. For example, to
retrieve a buffer of 250 block of 2^30 keys each, you would place the
following in the body of your message to "fetch@distributed.net":

blocksize=30
numblocks=250

blocksize may be an integer from 28 to 31, and numblocks may be an integer
from 0 to 1000.
4)Send your message. Your buffer will be mailed to you within a few hours.

A few things to remember:

1)The content of any messages sent to either "flush@distributed.net" or
"fetch@distributed.net" besides blocksize and numblocks commands will be
ignored.
2)It may take some time for you to receive your buffers. Don't expect them
to return to you instantly.
3)Flushing by e-mail will not change your stats. The stats still recognize
the blocks as belonging to the person who's email is set in the client which
cracked them. If your client is set up with the email address
"johndoe@fakedomainname.com" the stats will attribute them to that e-mail
address, regardless of how they are flushed.


We hope you will find this new feature useful. Don't be afraid to ask for
help if you need it.

Enjoy!

Jason White
a.k.a. Subground (subground@slacker.com)