>
>Sorry everyone, I thought that everyone knew that the GOOD TIMES thing
>was a *big* joke by now.
>
>To anyone who does programming it is obvious -- but I am sure to those who
>don't it could be terrifying.
>
 
It is (or was) possible to triger an action just by displaying an ASCII file!
If you were using an ANSI (aka VT100) terminal AND your mail reader did not
intercept escape sequences AND you were running a common shell or command
interpreter... then a devious message could do just about anything it wanted.
 
        -- Dan Oetting.