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RE: Re: GUNINSKI THE SELF-PROMOTER


From: "Andrew Thomas" <andrew () generator co za>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 17:14:34 +0200

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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