[39863] in Cypherpunks
Re: YET ANOTHER BAD NETSCAPE HOLE!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Cromwell)
Fri Sep 22 05:37:32 1995
From: Ray Cromwell <rjc@clark.net>
To: jsw@neon.netscape.com (Jeff Weinstein)
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 05:36:00 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <43tvj4$t7v@tera.mcom.com> from "Jeff Weinstein" at Sep 22, 95 09:28:04 am
>
> In article <199509220836.EAA14476@clark.net>, rjc@clark.net (Ray Cromwell) writes:
> > Disregard that last message. Those drugs I was taking must have just kicked
> > in. I was running another program in the background which coincidentally
> > brought up an xterm at the same time I clicked on the link. Damn,
> > and I thought I had found another bug. Ah well. There's probably one lurking
> > there somewhere. It was good while it lasted. When I hit "send" and
> > that xterm popped up, I almost jumped out of my seat. ;-) Remember
> > this lesson, you should always try to repeat your bugs atleast three
> > times. ;-)
>
> Thanks for quickly posting this retraction. For the record, netscape
> talks SMTP directly, and does not run an external program to send mail.
No problem. ;-) I congratulate you guys (Netscape) for reacting
so quickly. ;-)
BTW, I checked lynx for the big domain bug and it also crashes. It could
be a unix bug, but my own test program fails to crash looking up a
1000 character domain. Even so, Netscape should be enforcing a
sanity check on the domain.
-Ray
