From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 8528 invoked from network); 2 Aug 2023 00:37:36 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (2600:3c01:e000:146::1) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 2 Aug 2023 00:37:36 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3D4F40FDA; Wed, 2 Aug 2023 10:37:29 +1000 (AEST) Received: from exhmta04.bpe.bigpond.com (exhmta04.bpe.bigpond.com [203.42.40.148]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 62B0D40FC3 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2023 10:37:23 +1000 (AEST) Received: from exhprdcmr02 by exhprdomr04 with esmtp (envelope-from ) id 1qQzrd-0004hX-1b for tuhs@tuhs.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2023 10:37:21 +1000 Received: from [110.141.193.233] (helo=aneurin.horsfall.org) by exhprdcmr02 with esmtp (envelope-from ) id 1qQzrd-000E4r-1H for tuhs@tuhs.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2023 10:37:21 +1000 Received: from aneurin.horsfall.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 3720bKER011314 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2023 10:37:20 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) Received: from localhost (dave@localhost) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id 3720bKMN011311 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2023 10:37:20 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) X-Authentication-Warning: aneurin.horsfall.org: dave owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2023 10:37:20 +1000 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society In-Reply-To: <29602.1690887524@cesium.clock.org> Message-ID: References: <8246.1690761540@cesium.clock.org> <29602.1690887524@cesium.clock.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21.9999 (BSF 287 2018-06-16) X-GPG-Public-Key: http://www.horsfall.org/gpgkey.pub X-GPG-Fingerprint: 05B4 FFBC 0218 B438 66E0 587B EF46 7357 EF5E F58B X-Home-Page: http://www.horsfall.org/ X-Witty-Saying: "chmod 666 the_mode_of_the_beast" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-tce-ares-id: e{d73656d6-10de-4100-9a3e-d81f1f6a8ce8}1 X-tce-spam-action: no action X-tce-spam-score: 0.0 X-Cm-Analysis: v=2.4 cv=EuQU7wQA c=1 sm=1 tr=0 ts=64c9a541 a=tp40vz5QK/dVXQmd7GLw7w==:117 a=tp40vz5QK/dVXQmd7GLw7w==:17 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=UttIx32zK-AA:10 a=TgcxCASkx1ehD9JJQeIA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 X-Cm-Envelope: MS4xfAMjQTfEsEPblUuLt67OzQeGpOISWilxxYtAN5914RYpOXnCTjf/UF++GPf7Dyvj4sEnnPc++jqXCnO/mZwSjmBTASkZbPHRsxjGdi/Kd1jq7757kEI5 ccAFpfYpv8poSavQhvgYVtnkeFiQ4nGQWUWrOnh2QuXuGcpLraQBPDvE Message-ID-Hash: RKRFW5FB5YR3T6LS6ACZ5N2JV25IFRD2 X-Message-ID-Hash: RKRFW5FB5YR3T6LS6ACZ5N2JV25IFRD2 X-MailFrom: dave@horsfall.org X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: Cool talk on Unix and Sendmail history, by Eric Allman List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On Tue, 1 Aug 2023, Erik E. Fair wrote: > Even simple spew could be dangerous: who remembers "intelligent > terminal" transmit-back codes and the mischief those caused? ASCII bombs were fairly popular in the old MS-DOS BBS days (format the disk, anyone?), and it was possible over packet radio too (sort of a BBS via Amateur i.e. "ham" radio). -- Dave (vk2kfu)