From: gah@ugcs.caltech.edu   
      
   Actually two questions.   
      
   (If you don't understand the specifics, you might not want   
   to think about the answers.)   
      
   First:  In the case of sending a large e-mail message, if   
   the TCP connection is interrupted before it is finished, is   
   the message sure not to be sent?  I believe so, but if it goes   
   through as EOF to the SMTP server, it seems that it might send   
   an incomplete message.  Specfically a very large video file.   
      
   Second: Again assuming a very large file, and with the addition   
   that it is being sent through a cellular modem over many minutes,   
   is it possible that the client progress bar could reach   
   "SENDING MESSAGE: 100% COMPLETE" even though the message was   
   incomplete?  Consider the case of a cell tower being destroyed   
   during transmission.   
      
   In the case of a small message, I can see that it might fit into   
   one buffer, that buffer be passed to TCP, and considered sent.   
   (It seems that many ftp clients do that in timing a file transfer.)   
      
   In the specific case, it is at least multiple seconds, which should   
   be long enough that there would still be buffers to fill.   
      
   (also, this is not homework)   
      
   -- glen   
      
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