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TylerE

That certainly brings back memories... formmail, the early web discussion board (UBB?), etc

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Reminds me of Matt's Scripts Archive:

http://www.scriptarchive.com/

For a long time, it seemed like everyone was using his form mail and web forum scripts.

I used formmail.pl! Multiple times!

It cured me of any inclination I might have had to actually learn and use Perl.

Seems like a better lesson to learn would be "Don't use software written by people who've never read an RFC and know nothing about security." That way you could avoid awful software written in any language.

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