From: "Ron Natalie" <ron@ronnatalie.com>
To: "Dave Horsfall" <dave@horsfall.org>,
"The Eunuchs Hysterical Society" <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Cool talk on Unix and Sendmail history, by Eric Allman
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2023 14:52:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <em87b6729e-10f8-4841-85d1-a3e7e8fec698@a70c2ae8.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2308021029270.6040@aneurin.horsfall.org>
ASCII Bombs? Like my Letter Bomb Transport Protocol (LBTP)?
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).
------ Original Message ------
From "Dave Horsfall" <dave@horsfall.org>
To "The Eunuchs Hysterical Society" <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Date 8/1/23, 8:37:20 PM
Subject [TUHS] Re: Cool talk on Unix and Sendmail history, by Eric
Allman
>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)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-02 14:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 92+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-30 18:22 Norman Wilson
2023-07-30 21:43 ` Rob Pike
2023-07-30 23:34 ` George Michaelson
2023-07-30 23:59 ` Erik E. Fair
2023-07-31 0:26 ` Warner Losh
2023-07-31 22:57 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2023-07-31 23:05 ` Warner Losh
2023-08-01 2:45 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2023-08-01 1:51 ` Niklas Karlsson
2023-08-01 2:47 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2023-08-01 3:20 ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-07-31 0:41 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-08-01 9:22 ` Marc Donner
2023-08-01 10:58 ` Erik E. Fair
2023-08-02 0:37 ` Dave Horsfall
2023-08-02 14:52 ` Ron Natalie [this message]
2023-08-02 21:14 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2023-08-02 22:20 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-08-02 22:37 ` Warner Losh
2023-08-02 23:49 ` Rich Salz
2023-08-03 0:51 ` [TUHS] Re: python Larry McVoy
2023-08-03 1:20 ` George Michaelson
2023-08-03 2:53 ` Bakul Shah
2023-08-03 2:55 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-08-03 3:24 ` George Michaelson
2023-08-03 3:32 ` Warner Losh
2023-08-03 3:55 ` Bakul Shah
2023-08-03 8:32 ` Rob Pike
2023-08-03 14:19 ` Bakul Shah
2023-08-03 14:56 ` Dan Halbert
2023-08-03 15:20 ` will.senn
2023-08-03 22:05 ` Dan Cross
2023-08-04 0:24 ` John Cowan
2023-08-04 15:17 ` Dan Cross
2023-08-05 4:44 ` Bakul Shah
2023-08-03 15:41 ` John Cowan
2023-08-03 2:07 ` Clem Cole
2023-08-03 2:21 ` Pete Wright via TUHS
2023-08-03 2:56 ` Warner Losh
2023-08-03 12:36 ` Mike Markowski
2023-08-03 13:29 ` Rob Pike
2023-08-03 15:24 ` emanuel stiebler
2023-08-03 15:39 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-08-04 1:01 ` Larry McVoy
2023-08-04 1:28 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-08-04 1:58 ` Adam Thornton
2023-08-04 15:04 ` Dan Cross
2023-08-04 15:10 ` Larry McVoy
2023-08-03 16:57 ` [TUHS] Re: [TULSA] " Phil Budne
2023-08-03 17:00 ` Rich Salz
2023-08-03 20:35 ` [TUHS] Split addressing (I/D) space (inspired by the death of the python... thread) Will Senn
2023-08-03 21:05 ` [TUHS] " Kenneth Goodwin
2023-08-03 21:10 ` Ronald Natalie
2023-08-03 21:16 ` Warner Losh
2023-08-03 21:24 ` Ronald Natalie
2023-08-03 22:34 ` Kenneth Goodwin
2023-08-03 21:05 ` Ronald Natalie
2023-08-03 21:44 ` Clem Cole
2023-08-03 22:08 ` Will Senn
2023-08-03 22:54 ` Clem Cole
2023-08-03 23:08 ` Dave Horsfall
2023-08-03 23:15 ` Clem Cole
2023-08-04 0:38 ` John Cowan
2023-08-03 17:29 ` [TUHS] Re: [TULSA] Re: python Alejandro Colomar
2023-08-03 17:51 ` John Cowan
2023-08-03 18:05 ` Alejandro Colomar
2023-08-03 21:29 ` Dan Cross
2023-08-03 23:55 ` [TUHS] printf (was: python) Alejandro Colomar
2023-08-04 16:06 ` [TUHS] " Dan Cross
2023-08-04 16:57 ` Alejandro Colomar
2023-08-04 21:16 ` Dan Cross
2023-08-03 21:02 ` [TUHS] Re: [TULSA] Re: python Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-08-03 23:47 ` Larry McVoy
2023-08-03 23:54 ` Will Senn
2023-08-04 19:20 ` [TUHS] " Ed Bradford
2023-08-04 19:47 ` Larry McVoy
2023-08-05 5:40 ` Ed Bradford
2023-08-02 23:33 ` [TUHS] Re: Cool talk on Unix and Sendmail history, by Eric Allman Dave Horsfall
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2023-07-30 17:33 Douglas McIlroy
2023-07-21 18:53 [TUHS] " Rich Morin
2023-07-21 22:14 ` [TUHS] " Grant Taylor via TUHS
2023-07-21 22:30 ` Larry McVoy
2023-07-21 22:33 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2023-07-21 22:39 ` Larry McVoy
2023-07-21 23:39 ` Steve Nickolas
2023-07-22 4:37 ` John Cowan
2023-07-22 1:48 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-07-22 1:55 ` Jon Forrest
2023-07-22 6:45 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-07-22 14:54 ` Rich Salz
2023-07-22 15:24 ` Warner Losh
2023-07-22 16:12 ` Arrigo Triulzi via TUHS
2023-07-22 20:52 ` Dave Horsfall
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