> From: Dan Stromberg
> Sent: 16 July 2003 04:27
> > Actually, that's *STILL* impossible.
> 
> No, that used to be a popular misconception.  It's always 
> been theoretically possible for a plaintext mailreader to 
> allow, EG, a buffer overflow.  It's harder to get it wrong 
> with a simpler mailreader, but far from impossible.

Outlook had one with the time field a few years back, IIRC.

*finds link with google*

July 19th, 2000. Time zone field even. See below:
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/alerts/id/advise57

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