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[0;1mTHIS FILE IS FOR RENEGADE SYSOPS ONLY........IF YOU DON'T QUALIFY
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STOP READING THIS TEXT NOW. @8@8@8 hehe
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This is to alert all who care about a serious flaw in RENEGADE. This can do
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serious harm , or at least be a real pain in the ass to recover from. Let me explain.
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As you may have suspected, the MCI codes could be quite dangerous. The MCI
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code for a 2 second pause in renegade, as you probably know, is "@8". what do you think would happen if a bunch of 2 second
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pauses were strung together???? i'll tell ya, you and your users would think
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the board locked up. Imagine a message in every base 80 columns wide and the
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maximun message length of 200 lines long.......a pause 16,000 seconds long...
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4.4 hours!!!! well we both know that nobody is gonna stay around 4.44 hours
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to see the end of the message, so they drop carrier. then they call back and
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try to read the message again, and the same thing happens. So, you , the ever
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vigilant Sysop figures you'll delete the offending message, but guess what??
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the only way to delete a message is to view it first, isnt that special????
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a total screwover.
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Well, there are precautions you can take. the first one is to raise the
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MCI acs on all message bases. I used to allow the use of MCI codes in the war
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base, but since my evil mind figured this one out, they are there no longer.
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As far as a way to overcome this problem if it has already occured, i cant
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figure it out, but if anyone else has a solution, lemme know. the ultimate
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screwover would be for somebody to upload a .qwk packet containing a whole shitload of these @8 messages in every base.
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i think it would be re-configure time, no?
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