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# Re: [SERVER] ALPHA release of LambdaMOO server 1.7.9

- Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 11:11:18 PDT
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    >> This is a great suggestion. Grepping code and fixing it is the best way to
    >> discover hidden security holes.
    >>  '@egrep [^:]match('  gave 'only' 122 verbs in BioMOO. Isn't backwards
    >> incompatibility great?
    >
    >You are cordially invited to offer constructive suggestions and/or provide a
    >working, efficient implementation of regexps.

    The latter, obviously, I can't do.
    As for constructive suggestions - I am trying to find a method to search
    for this 'errors', and I'm calling others to help.
    How about a temporary patch to the regex code, that would warn to the log
    when 'wrong' regexps are used? Or, similarly, to the rx code, for
    'suspicious' regexps?

    >> It would be great if people posted what changes are needed in LambdaCore.
    >> Personally, I think this is a huge waste of time. Sometimes, broken seems
    >> to be better.
    >
    >How nice.  The single individual who complained most and loudest about bugs in
    >the old match() implementation thinks doing something about it was a bad idea.
    >Boy, it's enough to make one feel really appreciated.

    Ok, I was whining, breaking rule #foo of netiquette, i.e. 'never whine in a
    mailing list'.
    Sorry for the whining. I guess it's quite obvious that what I was
    complaining loudly about old failures, and that the 'simple' modification
    for upgrading wasn't precisely welcome in the circumstances...

    >Look, Gustavo.  I'm doing the best I can to try to find a good solution to this
    >problem.  If you'd like to offer up something constructive in return for this
    >free service, please do so.

    Your work is, as always, deeply appreciated, and you know that.
    As for something constructive in return, I am offering FUP. Also a free service.

    -------------------------------------------------------------
    Gustavo Glusman               Founder/administrator of BioMOO
    -- Gustavo@bioinformatics.weizmann.ac.il
    -- http://bioinformatics.weizmann.ac.il:70/0h/Gustavo/Glusman
    -- BioMOO: telnet bioinformatics.weizmann.ac.il 8888
               WWW:   http://bioinfo.weizmann.ac.il:8888

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