From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,971aa11c293c3db1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-28 04:54:18 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!iad-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!iad-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: When correct software meets illegal data (was: Ada The Best...) Message-ID: References: Organization: LJK Software Date: 28 Jul 2001 07:53:13 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.44.122.34 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 996321226 216.44.122.34 (Sat, 28 Jul 2001 11:53:46 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 11:53:46 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10664 Date: 2001-07-28T07:53:13-05:00 List-Id: In article , tmoran@acm.org writes: >> > I'd be eager to test my statistics gatherer (written in Ada of course) >> (Is the source to your gatherer available?) > Will be. It's in a hard hat only state right now. For instance, > one of the sites you mentioned showed the need for bigger URL_Counts, > and another has some URLs that I believe are not legally formed. That is a general problem with programming that matches a correct specification. It could be that some other program does _not_ match the specification. The latest email virus/worm (I forget the name, but it really does not matter especially in an archival sense) for Microsoft machines is reported to have skipped by several email-scanning security programs from major vendors in that field. In at least one case, the issue was one of recognizing the MIME format and taking some special action. The malware was creating messages that were not quite MIME, so they did not trip the alert in the security software. But they were "close enough" to be accepted by email agents, and wreak their havoc.