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

2013-09-06 10:44:17
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Pete Resnick 
<presnick(_at_)qti(_dot_)qualcomm(_dot_)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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