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Re: Bruce Schneier's Proposal to dedicate November meeting to savingthe Internet from the NSA

Scott Brim <scott.brim@gmail.com> Fri, 06 September 2013 15:43 UTC

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From: Scott Brim <scott.brim@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 11:43:24 -0400
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Subject: Re: Bruce Schneier's Proposal to dedicate November meeting to savingthe Internet from the NSA
To: Pete Resnick <presnick@qti.qualcomm.com>
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On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Pete Resnick <presnick@qti.qualcomm.com> wrote:
> OK, one last nostalgic anecdote about Eudora before I go back to finishing
> my spfbis Last Call writeup:
>
> MacTCP (the TCP/IP stack for the original MacOS) required a handler routine
> for ICMP messages for some dumb reason; you couldn't just set it to null in
> your code. So Steve implemented one. Whenever an ICMP message came in for a
> current connection (e.g., Destination Unreachable), Eudora would put up a
> dialog box. It read "Eudora has received an ICMP Destination Unreachable
> message." The box had a single button. It read, "So What?"
>
> Working for Steve was a hoot.

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