On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 05:46:02PM -0300, martin langhoff wrote:
> I'm asking for a bit of professionalism. Whoever posted that practical
> joke was doing it on purpose -- and that's not professional at all.
> Professionals know that it takes a lot of work to build, and very little
> to destroy.
>
Everyone needs to take a deep breath and just relax. The message I posted was
in the context of a discussion of certain types of legal addresses that mutt
didn't handle correctly. As an aside, I posted a message with an address in it
that caused Outlook Express to lock up. It didn't "destroy" anything. It wasn't
a virus. It didn't erase files. It simply made it necessary to kill Outlook
Express and restart it.
If you use Windows (and I do), it's a fact of life that programs lock up
frequently and unexpectedly. You kill them, or sometimes you have to reboot
(which in this case you didn't), and life goes on.
So please spare me all this talk of "attacks" and "vicitms" and so forth. If
you want to get angry at someone, get angry at the Microsoft software engineers
who put out an MUA that can be locked up by messages containing certain
sequences of ASCII characters.
Chris
