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In article <850295867snz@dsl.co.uk>, Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
<bhk@dsl.co.uk> writes

>Paul (and anyone else using OASIS or similar),
>
>You may want to check your software and/or configuration.  The original
>thread, to which you've posted three follow-ups, had a title
>Subject: NYNEX and 0845 charges - 50% higher than local rates!
>(in case you don't see it, that's a percentage sign after the "50",
>followed by a space and the word "higher")
>
>Somewhere along the way, this has become MIME-encoded

this wouldn't be necessary, % is part of US-ASCII!

>, presumably to
>something like:
>Subject: NYNEX and 0845 charges - 50=25 higher than local rates!
>(because the percent sign is 0x25 in ASCII).

If you check the articles followed up to, you will find that _all_ of
the damage was done inside of OASIS :(

At an educated guess, the subject line is being fed to printf (probably
to add the "Re:") and the '% hi' within it is causing some random byte
on the stack to be printed :(   I suspect that a suitable subject line
with some more interesting characters after the "%" will cause OASIS to
die especially horribly!

The articles are also missing any References: lines :( so the
combination of damaged subject with this makes them unthreadable by
Turnpike ((some of the Unix news readers will find the attribution
strings within the body and manage that way - but most Usenet readers
will suffer)).

The author of "OASIS Daily Net (Atari) v1.35E" has some more development
work to do :(

copy and followups to d.i.developers (as an instructive example to
others)

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