[Jax.PM] wpoison ?

[Greg Sabino Mullane]

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> Hi All :)
>
> What do you guys think about this:
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> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
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> # wpoison.pl - Version 1.8p

Pretty cool program. I actually wrote a similar one a long time ago, 
which doesn't use a dictionary file but just strings together 
random characters. Ron is a very active, very anti-spam advocate: 
he can be abrasive but is a good person and has done a lot of good, 
including running some filtering lists (e.g. formmail and open proxy) 
and writing things like this.

If you are asking about the perl itself, well, it works, although 
it is obvious Ron is from a C background. Some quick things I 
might improve upon:

* Stick to either vars or my at the top where the variables are 
declared, but not both.

* Use 'qw' in those large array assignments.

* Replace chop with chomp

* Replace goto with redo

* Lose the srand call

Very minor things: after all, it works, nd that's all that really 
matters most times.


If you are asking about the whole concept, I think it has some validity, 
but overall I would say that the current spam environment almost demands 
an escalation into auto-blocking and tarpitting, perhaps in addition 
to wpoison...

Greg Sabino Mullane  greg at turnstep.com
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