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From: spl@cs.nps.navy.mil (Steve Lamont)
Newsgroups: alt.security,alt.folklore.computers,comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Re: Feedback on Computer Crime - Apology
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Date: 29 Aug 90 01:40:20 GMT
References: <1990Aug27.194144.10910@cbnewsl.att.com> <1990Aug28.161459.11497@ctr.columbia.edu> <1990Aug28.174333.22132@athena.mit.edu> <1990Aug28.182451.11662@ctr.columbia.edu>
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In article <1990Aug28.182451.11662@ctr.columbia.edu> mokry@ctr.columbia.edu (Robert Mokry) writes:
>Is it really a standard character?  It may be standard in Unix, but what
>about other systems?  Why not use ^C?  What if a login program on a
>non-Unix computer gets confused and crashes when it gets ^D, letting the
>person on the system?  And what if the person knows that this is the case?

Oh, for heavens sake!  What if?  What if?  What if?  What if Eleanor
Rooseveldt could fly, fer cryin' out loud?

This is getting stoopid (tm).

Give it a rest.

							spl (the p stands for
							please drop this silly
							discussion.)
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