  This paper studies a variant of the classical problem of ``writing on dirty
paper'' in which the sum of the input and the interference, or dirt, is
multiplied by a random variable that models resizing, known to the decoder but
not to the encoder. The achievable rate of Costa's dirty paper coding (DPC)
scheme is calculated and compared to the case of the decoder's also knowing the
dirt. In the ergodic case, the corresponding rate loss vanishes asymptotically
in the limits of both high and low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and is small at
all finite SNR for typical distributions like Rayleigh, Rician, and Nakagami.
In the quasi-static case, the DPC scheme is lossless at all SNR in terms of
outage probability. Quasi-static fading broadcast channels (BC) without
transmit channel state information (CSI) are investigated as an application of
the robustness properties. It is shown that the DPC scheme leads to an outage
achievable rate region that strictly dominates that of time division.
