[TUHS] Cool talk on Unix and Sendmail history, by Eric Allman

[Ron Natalie]

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 at horsfall.org>
To "The Eunuchs Hysterical Society" <tuhs at 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)