Subj : Re: ad
To   : Finnigann
From : Angus McLeod
Date : Sun Jul 17 2005 01:41 am

  Re: Re: ad
  By: Finnigann to Angus McLeod on Sun Jul 17 2005 00:50:00

 >  >  >  > z**B00000000000000*B0600000000cd85**B0600000000cd85**B0600000000
 >  >
 >  >
 >  >  > Oh, that was clever...
 >  >
 >  >
 >  >    Whatever these are, there causing problems for me. Forcing an x-modem
 >  >   transfer when I encounter them. Kind of annoying!
 > 
 >  AM> They are a Z-Modem startup sequence.
 > 
 > 
 > That was the obvious part.
 > 
 > What were they intended to be... and why did they get posted?

I'd *guess* someone tried to upload an ANSI message onto the board using 
Z-Modem instead of the ASCII protocol.

What surprised me most was that plain ole 'konsole' recognised it and 
tried to download the file!


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