Fwd: Re: AIM 3.0

[pram512 () YAHOO COM (Me Uh, K.)]

Sorry for the extra set of > - I mailed it to the
wrong person, had to forward the copy in my outbox.

-mia k. (I'm not really a total f***-up, I just play
one in real life)

--- "Me Uh, K." <pram512 () yahoo com> wrote:
> Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 14:55:28 -0800 (PST)
> From: "Me Uh, K." <pram512 () yahoo com>
> Reply-to: pram512 () yahoo com
> Subject: Re: AIM 3.0
> To: Blue Boar <BlueBoar () THIEVCO COM>
>
>
>
> --- Blue Boar <BlueBoar () THIEVCO COM> wrote:
> > As for overflows... there was the twsited rumor
> > situation about AIM
> > overflows, apparantly spread by an MS employee??
> > Anyone ever get
> > verfication on that one?
>
> wasn't there something about reverse overflows, a
> few
> months back, when MS was trying to link their
> messenger to AIM, and AOL kept changing thier
> protocols to stay ahead of them.  I thought I read
> something about AOL using buffer overflows to crash
> the MS Client, while AIM was unnaffected, so AOL
> used
> it in every exchange, in order to prevent MS from
> using their customers.
>
> Sound familiar?  Am I wrong?  (it's been a while, I
> wasn't really interested, so I only read it once, no
> further research)
>
> -mia k. (finally catching up on email backlog, and
> replying to old messages :)
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