From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] who invented the email attachment?
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 13:41:31 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1703191338440.42626@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <61ff3fb7-7b96-d129-6a02-a56059bfe991@mhorton.net>
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On Sat, 18 Mar 2017, Mary Ann Horton wrote:
> 1. Originally, our files were all plain text and we just included them in
> the email message body. The ~r command in Kurt Shoen's Mail program was
> typical. There was no name for this, we were just emailing files.
1.5 They started to include in-line shell scripts, then we piped them
into the "unshar" utility, which did basic security checks.
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Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-19 2:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-18 23:46 Mary Ann Horton
2017-03-19 0:12 ` William Corcoran
2017-03-19 2:41 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2017-03-19 4:11 ` Nick Downing
2017-03-20 1:21 ` Mary Ann Horton
2017-03-20 2:23 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-20 7:32 ` arnold
[not found] ` <58cfaea1.7iwnMeBm9Gzvxy4O%schily@schily.net>
2017-03-20 17:34 ` Mary Ann Horton
2017-03-19 11:42 ` Josh Good
2017-03-19 2:14 Doug McIlroy
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