Subj : Re: ET phone home
To   : Roger Nelson
From : Nick Andre
Date : Wed Jan 11 2017 01:19 pm

On 11 Jan 17  11:23:17, Roger Nelson said the following to Nick Andre:

WD> I think the KEE-generator got hacked and unlimited numbers of KEE's 
WD> could b made.
RN> 
RN>  NA> There was code in the mailer that caused two systems with the same
RN>  NA> KEE numbers to crash upon connection. I'm not sure if the modem
RN>  NA> would be disconnected ;) 
RN> 
RN> If D'Bridge crashed, which I now remember that it would under that
RN> circumstance, wouldn't the modem be disconnected automatically?

Not necessarily. A system crash, or more specifically a DOS program that 
just decides to give-up... does not automatically drop the carrier signal on a
COM port unless its told to do so or a hard-reset is done.

I have an archive of the source code for 1.60 I believe, I can take a look.

Nick

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