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   BBS_CARNIVAL      Your BBS software rules and others suck      5,461 messages   

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   Message 3,277 of 5,461   
   mark lewis to Phil Kimble   
   Offline Mail Doors   
   18 May 18 11:20:42   
   
    On 2018 May 17 22:56:46, you wrote to All:   
      
      
    PK> For some odd reason I suddenly have an obsession to install a offline mail   
    PK> door. After d/ling BlueWave Mail Door,   
      
      
   Bluewave stuff must all be patched for y2k... doors and clients... without the   
   patch, there will be random numbers in the To and/or From fields... the   
   problem is the two digit year is calculated by subtracting 1900 from the   
   current year... that gives a value greater than 99... they don't ensure that   
   the returned value is only two digits aka result := mod(result,100)... it is   
   an overlooked flaw that stems from doing math calcs on the year instead of   
   string work with substr...   
      
     http://www.wpusa.dynip.com/files/BLUEWAVE/   
      
   there's two ways to handle the y2k problem... neither is official and never   
   can be... the preferred one, true patch of binaries, is at the very top of the   
   page... the other one is mainly user-side but can be run on the BBS side... it   
   is down in the 3rd section of the files list... it is not a patch but a glue   
   program used when the file is (un)zipped...   
      
      
    PK> I am curiouswht the others are & if they are worth looking into? OLMS   
    PK> will be the next adventure...   
      
      
   OLMS stopped working properly over here... when it would shell to zip up the   
   files to send to the user, it would stop with some weird sort of memory   
   allocation error... looks to me to be maybe an indicator of a pirated copy but   
   the reg key is the free one...   
      
      
   )\/(ark   
      
   Always Mount a Scratch Monkey   
   Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it   
   wrong...   
   ... Poo poo occurs.   
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