Posted by Stan McCann on 07/13/06 03:40

"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> wrote in
news:6tctg.123101$mF2.28981@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net:

> kirsten@lmgfinance.ca wrote:
>
>> .. I am using Matt's formmail.pl and it working great ..
>
> Please stop using Matt's programs. Chances are good that as soon as
> a spammer finds it, your site will be spewing spam emails by the
> millions. The spammers have bots that search the WWW for copies of
> it.

Chances are they are already using it. If the server admin isn't up to
speed, they can go quite some time before knowing of the abuse. Don't
ask me how I know. ;)

> http://www.html-faq.com/cgi/?secureformmail

As fast as you can.

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