Re: (ASCEND) Broadcast Message to On-Line Users?

[Phillip Vandry <vandry@Mlink.NET>]

> On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Kirk Rogers wrote:
> 
> :Hello all,
> :Is there some way to broadcast messages to users who are currently on-line?
> :Any clues would be appreciated.
> 
> Hrm, what protocol would you recommend. There are a few ways to do it, but
> only if the client is running that protocol or has that thing enabled. I
> find email does a good job of broadcasting messages.

[big hack warning!]

There's always ICQ. Being fairly popular and UDP based, you could spoof
mesages from the server to each of the addresses in your dynamic IP pool,
and, assuming you had collected information on the ports to use ahead of
time (by sniffing the traffic!), it could work.

-Phil
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