Re: Unpacking insecure arcmail
  By: mark lewis to Joe Delahaye on Sun Mar 15 2015 13:16:04

 JD>> I think more likely the thought of mailbonbs as a threat no longer
 JD>> exists.

 ML> never let your guard down... we might be smaller than the net was in years
 ML> past when two well known folks got into a controversy and one set up their
 ML> mailer to send $CLOCK to the other... $CLOCK is a never ending
 ML> psuedo-file... it was documented in the snooze IIRC... i know i've read it
 ML> several times... this was one of the things that lead to mailer developers
 ML> to not allow such psuedo-files to be attached like this...


Oh, I dont.  I was around during those times.  Probably still have some
archives someplace of the echo wars, where some inserted messages from xxx
rated UUCP packets into general echos in Fidonet.  That is a mail bomb as well,
although not like the ones that exploded into thousands of messages.  Luckily I
never received one of those.
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