Subj : not all is lost but far too much for far too long
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : mark lewis
Date : Thu Jul 04 2019 04:21 pm


On 2019 Jul 04 17:38:10, you wrote to me:

ml>> oh but there is... getting that mechanism into operation like used to
ml>> be done is a little harder to do these days for some reason...

MK> I'll believe it when I see it.

the mechanism is the *Cs and them letting folks know that they are running
banned software due to the flaw(s) causing problems on the network... the
detection of the flaw(s) comes from the FTSC... the *Cs, guided by their ZC,
then let their nodes know and get them to downgrade to an approced version of
the software or to upgrade to a newer one without the flaw... if there is no
newer one and the system doesn't downgrade, the enforcement is temporary
blocking of their node number...

MK> Also I don't buy into the "good ol' days" when everything was
MK> peacho-keen-neato.  I am sure some (most?) of that is selective
MK> memory.

i don't have a clue what you're speaking of... i only know that both frontdoor
and binkleyterm had beta versions banned at one time because of
interoperability problems... the problems were fixed very quickly and a new
beta released... some beta testers elected to downgrade to the previous beta...
others didn't get that chance for one reason or another...

MK> Anyhow I look forward to seeing the 0x8d bug die a horrible, miserable
MK> death. Make my day.  :-)

we have to find exactly which software it is causing it... no guessing if it is
this one or that one... several of us have done a good portion of this
tracking... you and i included ;)

)\/(ark

And to this end they built themselves a stupendous super-computer which was
so amazingly intelligent that even before its data banks had been connected
up it had started from "I think therefore I am" and got as far as deducing
the existence of rice pudding and income tax before anyone managed to turn
it off.
... My other car is a BUDD.
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