Subj : Beautiful hacks
To   : Bob Worm
From : Ben Collver
Date : Sat Oct 21 2023 11:55:14

  Re: Beautiful hacks
  By: Bob Worm to All on Sat Oct 21 2023 14:20:14

BW> Some bright spark noticed that if you sent a CTCP ping to a user through
BW> IRC containing "+++ ATH", their client would echo that back and, more
BW> often than not, it would hang up their modem.

I recall this hack.  One simple "hack" that we did on the DOS machines in
our high school computer lab was use unbreakable space characters in file
names.  This made the file "invisible" in the directory listing.  We used
Alt+255 to enter this character at the command prompt.

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