Dana wrote:

On Sat, 04 Jun 2005 23:23:51 +0000, Peter Jensen wrote:


IMHO, not fixing such a trivial bug for so extremely long is nothing
short of showing contempt for their customers.

This bug, in connection with another bug that has since been fixed,
actually allowed any properly formatted Usenet message to crash OE when
you clicked on it. It's therefore not as harmless as it might seem at
first glance.

Ok, ic, but still what is the purpose of exploiting some bug in software
on purpose? What useful purpose does it serve?
These are discussion groups and I was under the impression the basic
concept was to discuss things, not screw up other persons news programs?
I have never seen this type of thing before so I am ignorant.
Is this a Linux thing, IOW some way for Linux users to exploit Windows
software?
The entire thing seems very silly to me.


There is nothing wrong with what they are doing. The format should not cause
any problems what so ever with ANYONE. We have a number of wintrolls in
this group claiming how great windows is. But how can they claim that
windows is so great when such a simple, silly, stupid bug goes unfixed for
YEARS? It is just an easy way of reminding the wintrolls what crappy bug
fix support they get from MS.