Bug#122929: RFP: wpoison -- small CGI script to combat junk email
Hi Matthew!
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 02:41:16AM +0100, Matthew Astley wrote:
> I've pulled this down from http://bugs.debian.org/122929 , forgive me
> for the confusion. I'm not a Debian maintainer, but I probably should
> be. 9-)
Are you taking this RFP? In that case please retitle the bug to
start with "ITP"
> Over the weekend I got really ticked off with one spambot based on
> Indylib, which is documented at flarp.net . I had a chat with the guy
> at flarp.net, and muttered something about feeding the stupid beast
> some data.
>
> I'm sure I bumped into wpoison when it was first released .. indeed I
> think I used it to generate static HTML bait back in 1997, but this
> time I reinvented the wheel.
This is great news. I gave up on wpoison because it had very unproper
license restrictions, and upstream wasn't maintaining it.
> If you're still interested in this sort of thing, you can prod it from
> http://www.t8o.org/ .
It's down at the moment.
> I have to reclaim my copyright from my employer, but the thing will be
> GPL when I release it - hopefully inside a month, depending on
> interest.
Nice. I prefer GPL much more than the BSDish license with advertising
clause it had.
> Subject to seeing the spambots reaction to the thing when it next
> visits, I've probably lost interest in the thing for now though,
> sorry.
Do you have a sponsor to get it in Debian?
> ps. play much Starcraft, or is the name a coincidence?
I used to. 400 shield hit points and 100 psyon blade damage
is worth to put a name in my email :)
please CC to 122929@bugs.debian.org on your response.
cheers,
--
Robert Millan
"5 years from now everyone will be running
free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5"
Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992
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