I believe I have done something quite stupid. I've been noticing a lot more e-mail these days -- spam e-mails. One of the most common types so far have been the 'Here is the result of your feedback form:' type e-mails. In fact, there was a bug in Matt's "formmail" script, which seems to be the de-facto standard for writing the feedback scripts that appear on many webpages.
Like this one, on a website that is about 3 years old and whose formmail script was used sum total of about 4 times.
And then my Linux box mysteriously crashed after about 4 and a half months or so of uptime. Looked like it suddenly got overloaded, hmm, ran out of memory, and disk space.
Anyway, to make a long story short, about 66 thousand e-mails were shoved through my box, arnica.ardant.net, before it died heroically in a field of swarming packets, protecting the image of Linux on 486s [Ed Note: Over-glorified. ].
Contents of the spam are preserved over here for historic purposes -- and also to act as a deterrant towards any future Ardant-stupidity.
I hate spam.
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