buffer overflow

I realised the other day that IRC clients and servers are prey to a terrible buffer flaw. People too often leave open " and ' and even ( and {'s in idle conversation. Imagine how many servers Right now are filling up buffers and buffers of unclosed entities. I say we stop the madness now. Everyone needs to start chucking a few extra ",',) and }'s into their conversations, to Stop the impending buffer nightmare. We don't know how many buffers are slowly ticking up, but we do know they are out there.

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