Re: bootstrapping from ECHO

Michael Leonhard <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.culture.people.kragen.discuss
Message-ID <[email protected]>
This reminds me of my first time using the Internet.  I had a UUCP email
account and learned how to use SMTP-HTTP gateways to retrieve documents from
the Web.  Somebody emailed me a pure ASCII uudecode.com which allowed me to
decode the downloaded files.  It was so much fun. :)

-Michael

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:55 AM, Kragen Javier Sitaker <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 06:18:30PM +0200, Dave Long wrote:
> > echo jUX4UPYhUUX5UTP_h@@Z0u1QZJ0u=0uCh//Z!UHhOOZ!UHkUHPG2UHhURX5UP2!
> > hULX2!A> e.com
>
> Wow. I laughed so long when I saw this that I think Beatrice may be
> concerned for my sanity.  Very impressive.
>
> I haven't successfully run it yet.
>
> > fact the whole thing is rather fragile as it has to do a certain
> > amount of self-modification just to do any I/O,
>
> Aha!
>
> Kragen
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