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Subject: Re: BitchX /ignore bug
From: Steve Mosher (goatPHOENIX.ISN.NET)
Date: Wed Jul 05 2000 - 09:12:42 CDT

On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, Ron DuFresne wrote:
> If I read this correctly, this is not an attack perse, but a self
> annihilation is it not? and while a bug, not something one can use to
> take others ofline or server, please correct me if I read this wrong.

        It won't touch the server at all, since the problem exists within
the client. This _is_ an attack, since it will crash a client, or possibly
worse, as discussed. 

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