Re: Bruce Schneier's Proposal to dedicate November meeting to savingthe Internet from the NSA

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On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Pete Resnick <presnick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> OK, one last nostalgic anecdote about Eudora before I go back to finishing
> my spfbis Last Call writeup:
>
> MacTCP (the TCP/IP stack for the original MacOS) required a handler routine
> for ICMP messages for some dumb reason; you couldn't just set it to null in
> your code. So Steve implemented one. Whenever an ICMP message came in for a
> current connection (e.g., Destination Unreachable), Eudora would put up a
> dialog box. It read "Eudora has received an ICMP Destination Unreachable
> message." The box had a single button. It read, "So What?"
>
> Working for Steve was a hoot.

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