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 26110 invoked from network); 2 Aug 2023 23:33:42 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 2 Aug 2023 23:33:42 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C54CF40F72; Thu, 3 Aug 2023 09:33:34 +1000 (AEST) Received: from exhmta09.bpe.bigpond.com (exhmta09.bpe.bigpond.com [203.42.40.153]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 442A640F6A for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2023 09:33:27 +1000 (AEST) Received: from exhprdcmr11 by exhprdomr09 with esmtp (envelope-from ) id 1qRLLI-0006gc-2d for tuhs@tuhs.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2023 09:33:24 +1000 Received: from [110.141.193.233] (helo=aneurin.horsfall.org) by exhprdcmr11 with esmtp (envelope-from ) id 1qRLLI-000FMf-2E for tuhs@tuhs.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2023 09:33:24 +1000 Received: from aneurin.horsfall.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 372NXN3u018598 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2023 09:33:23 +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 372NXNf9018595 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2023 09:33:23 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) X-Authentication-Warning: aneurin.horsfall.org: dave owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2023 09:33:22 +1000 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society In-Reply-To: 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{261a028a-e20d-421b-a4a1-84a84d6cc606}1 X-tce-spam-action: no action X-tce-spam-score: 0.0 X-Cm-Analysis: v=2.4 cv=JJ798eGb c=1 sm=1 tr=0 ts=64cae7c4 a=tp40vz5QK/dVXQmd7GLw7w==:117 a=tp40vz5QK/dVXQmd7GLw7w==:17 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=UttIx32zK-AA:10 a=1XWaLZrsAAAA:8 a=e2O1uSHgLRsnaSYqBjYA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 X-Cm-Envelope: MS4xfJhh9oZ2+t5nT8HONmIwz7dZKIvKgK9beUuuJla0bdgBEB0GBzj4eWMoy3xXAnRDGsswG+yPYPLuSrmVrE6FzpTsBR2ekJfqnJFMwkt1+b5MLfeFkvQL ROhrWjyrnG1iLxC2DwniT7n1muSQ+jY+Np81FmK8wpCq5FOhszEaNdrz Message-ID-Hash: RPSV32FFLTZX4H7HG4LEODPTI4LEOLI2 X-Message-ID-Hash: RPSV32FFLTZX4H7HG4LEODPTI4LEOLI2 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 Wed, 2 Aug 2023, Ron Natalie wrote: > ASCII Bombs? Like my Letter Bomb Transport Protocol (LBTP)? Some "smart" terminals could have their function keys programmed by escape characters, then subsequently invoked... > https://groups.google.com/g/net.followup/c/OJBALbzTq4w/m/LoxMnbz0bwMJ > > It seems to have lost something in the formatting (the leading spaces > were all removed). Aha... Much better with a bit of imagination :-) Which reminds me: the reason why I refuse to use Python is that white space is part of the syntax; the last language I used with that property was FORTRAN (and I also had to learn COBOL as part of my CS degree, but fortunately never had to use it). -- Dave