Hi, Rubyists! 
On the Ruby homepage I found this report:
[2004-12-25] by maki
Matz announced that ruby 1.8.2 was released ([ruby-talk:124413] and [ruby-talk:124434]).
This is mainly a bug fix release. You can download it at:
* <URL:ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/ruby-1.8.2.tar.gz>
md5sum is 8ffc79d96f336b80f2690a17601dea9b
Merry Christmas!
Last update on December 25, 2004 11:45
I downloaded ruby from this link again and md5sum the archive.
The checksum was:
b12eda7df4aa903bafd9d7f57ad4098e
How many versions of the same 1.8.2. release are out now?
Would it eventually better to increase the version number a little?
Kind regards,
Meino (a little confused...)
Hi Matz,
Thank you very much for your quick reply ! 
That is an interesting thing...
I downloaded ruby-1.8.2.tar.gz with firefox 1.0 first ... which gaves
me the wrong md5-sum.
But I was able to unpack, compile and install ruby (that was the
"""final reason""" for my post...otherwise I would have thought, that
the archive get corrupted.
After receiving your email I tried it again...this time with lftp. I
checked for bin mode (which is the default) and downloaded ruby.
This time the md5 sum was ok.
So the question I have to answer is....
Why I could unpack, compile and install the "corrupted" archive
with the wrong checksum? What does FireFox do to my downloads ?
The world is a miracle place ... 
(Or in other words: Even if the Ruby-Archive is corrupted, Ruby can
be compiled and installed from it. WHAT AN AMAZING LANGUAGE! X-)
Have a nice day !
Meino
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From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org>
Subject: Re: Checksum bad again ?
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 16:04:52 +0900
Hi,
In message "Re: Checksum bad again ?" > on Tue, 28 Dec 2004 06:13:10 +0100 (CET), Meino Christian Cramer <Meino.Cramer@gmx.de> writes:
> * <URL:ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/ruby-1.8.2.tar.gz>
>
> md5sum is 8ffc79d96f336b80f2690a17601dea9b
> I downloaded ruby from this link again and md5sum the archive.
> The checksum was:
> b12eda7df4aa903bafd9d7f57ad4098e
>
> How many versions of the same 1.8.2. release are out now?
The 8ffc79d96f336b80f2690a17601dea9b is the right one. If you get
otherwise, try checking transfer mode of your ftp client.
matz.