I'll guess MS has fixed that problem, since my OE5.5 did'nt freeze or react
at all on that mail. But then again, I'm preety eager on fixes for my W2K
machine.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 11:11 PM
Subject: Re: Outlook Express Prank
> 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
>
