2 Aug
2023
2 Aug
'23
4:52 p.m.
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(a)horsfall.org>
To "The Eunuchs Hysterical Society" <tuhs(a)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)