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Ancient Trivia: +++ath0
From: Luke Scharf <lscharf () aoe vt edu>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 20:42:55 -0500
This is a bit of ancient trivia that came up over lunch today. I thought maybe y'all could offer some insight. As the old BBS'ers and even older folks know, the string "+++ath0" will disconnect a modem. Once upon a time, I had this string in my e-mail signature. Some folks using Windows and a dialup line couldn't respond to my e-mail, even though the e-mail was being sent via PPP and all that good stuff. Everyone could receive the mail, though, so I'm assuming that the ISP was was running a decent implementation of PPP -- although since I haven't used modems in years, I can't rule out that the ISP was using some sort of non-Hayes modem. Does anyone know what versions of windows had this particular bug in the PPP implementation? Were any other systems affected? Thanks, -Luke P.S. Oh, yeah, just for laughs: +++ath0 -- Luke Scharf, Systems Administrator Virginia Tech Aerospace and Ocean Engineering _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
Current thread:
- Ancient Trivia: +++ath0 Luke Scharf (Mar 17)
- Re: Ancient Trivia: +++ath0 cstone (Mar 17)
- Re: Ancient Trivia: +++ath0 Luke Scharf (Mar 18)
- Re: Ancient Trivia: +++ath0 Alexander Bochmann (Mar 18)
- Re: Ancient Trivia: +++ath0 Cael Abal (Mar 18)
- Re: Ancient Trivia: +++ath0 Luke Scharf (Mar 18)
- Re: Ancient Trivia: +++ath0 cstone (Mar 17)
- Re: Ancient Trivia: +++ath0 Nick FitzGerald (Mar 17)
- Re: Ancient Trivia: +++ath0 Harry Hoffman (Mar 17)
- Re: Ancient Trivia: +++ath0 KF (Mar 17)
- Re: Ancient Trivia: +++ath0 Harry Hoffman (Mar 17)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Ancient Trivia: +++ath0 Paul Szabo (Mar 17)
- Re: Ancient Trivia: +++ath0 Luke Scharf (Mar 18)
- RE: Ancient Trivia: +++ath0 Cowles, Robert D. (Mar 18)