RE: [cobalt-users] Possible spammer or what?

[Greg Hewitt-Long <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Greg Hewitt-Long wrote:
>
>> >http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts/formmail.shtml
>>
>>
>> And one of the most abused scripts in the history of CGI enters another phase,
>> whereby it will *PROBABLY* take *AT LEAST* a month for some kid to find
>> another exploit!
>
>Did you even bother to go to the url and read the changes?  Did you
>compare them to any of the fixes for formmail that have been posted
>in various lists, web pages, etc?


Yes,  we keep abreast of World Wide Mart script releases - after all, Matt Wright *IS* from Fort Collins - Did you check out where our offices were, view *OUR* web site - make any connection?  Any inference, or are you simpy applying your own 'half-baked' logic?

>
>>
>> Sorry - don't trust it as far as I can throw it - next thing, you'll be
>> telling me that windoze is cool and Microshaft has my best interests at
>> heart!  *** PAH!!! ***
>
>No, I don't engage in that type of strawman logic...I'll leave it to you
>to make assumptions and attribute things to others that they never said.


We'll simply not implement scripts and tools which have a history of being abused - whether the author claims to have fixed it (v1.7) and then fixed it again (v1.8) then most recently, fixed it again with v1.9 - do you HONESTLY think it's wise to take HIS WORD FOR IT?


>
>Of course, since you seem to be so knowledgeable about formmail, you could
>do us all a favor and tell us why the new version is so bad.


Please refer to my previous sentence - I don't trust something that's been proven to be security risk 3 releases in a row - my natural distrust of people who have REPEATEDLY been proven wrong prevents me from taking something they claim with a new release as gospel.
 
If you are rather more trusting of software authors whose products have been found lacking many, many, MANY times before, that is indeed, up to you!  If so, I have some excellent *BARGAINS* you may be interested in - want to buy a used car for starters?


>thom
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