Subj : .RUL files
To   : Ben Ritchey
From : mark lewis
Date : Thu Mar 30 2017 21:36:14


 On 2017 Mar 29 23:35:52, you wrote to me:

 BR>  ml { over here... this is also one reason why the MOD UPDs for these 
areas
 BR>  ml { have had a empty RUL line in them for the last decade+... with the
 BR> old ml { system, they would have been flushed after some period of time of
 BR> not ml { being updated by a MOD RUL...

 BR> My current efforts are to allow .RUL files where needed. I haven't thought
 BR> out the whole process yet. All I know is with the old Echobase 3.48 the 
Mod
 BR> Rul submissions VERY often crashed EB and corrupted the Database beyond
 BR> repair, so I dropped the little used Rule sub-system from EList v4 
entirely
 BR> at first.

the main thing i was pointing out is that those files need to be removed and 
should have been a long time ago...

i don't know if i'll start sending rule files to the echolist again or not... 
reading over what you wrote about them in another message, i have numerous 
concerns but i'm not sure when/if i'll have time to write them down for you... 
the main thing, though, is security and what happens if someone drops off a 
file with an existing name that shouldn't be dropped off by them... in other 
words, someone pretending to be authorized to drop off that particular file... 
kinda rings of the heyday's packet injection mess...

)\/(ark

Always Mount a Scratch Monkey
Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it 
wrong...
.... All things squat and ugly.
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