on code signatures

[Benjamin Scott]

On May 4 at 11:33am, aluminumsulfate at earthlink.net wrote:
> ~!fs\ s\a\ ~\/ a\ll al\l#~^~_~g at j-~@^~_ki~-^l~l~~-n~_x/  \~^u~_pa-~R-
>
> ^ notice the ~ escape at the beginning of that line.  When piped through 
> /bin/mail ..., mail will interperet ~! as a shell escape and run everything 
> up to the "#" as a shell command.... Oh, what surprises await!!

   I'm prolly missing something really obvious here, but wouldn't that just run 
this

 	fs\ s\a\ ~\/ a\ll al\l

as a shell command?  On my system, at least, that results in a "command not 
found" error.  I also don't have command called "fs", assuming that was what 
was intended.

-- 
Ben <dragonhawk at iname.com>