So it is too hard for you to fix in five minutes?

There are Tens of Thousands of users on this site. Imagine if all of them asked for "only 5 minutes" of merlyn's time.

You would rather suggest how you could hack it, and not how you could it fix? You seem to have spent enough time already telling me how bad it is. If someone wants to hack my script, good for them. If you could hack it, good for you. I am sure that there are 10's, of 100's, of 1000's!!! of people that could. Good for them and good for you. Good for everybody! :)

You don't seem to understand about "getting hacked" means. Its not good. You really don't want it to happen.

So, you said something about blacklisted... blacklisted by who?

Your ISP. If they find out that your account has been spamming (whether its your fault or not), they'll cancel your account, and you'll have a very hard time finding another decent company to carry you.

You talk of creating mail burden. It is not my fault that some people have nothing better to do.

You still don't understand. Its not the "friends telling friends about the website" that is the problem; its the potential that some cracker will hijack your script, and then automate it to cause your box to send out a million spammail messages for him before you know what hits you.

I thought the point of scripts were to make jobs easier to do. That is what I am trying to do. That is what email does. Maybe I should as people to write a letter and mail it to their friends, telling them about my site.

Or perhaps you should just listen to the advice given to you and make your script secure.

Maybe Zip-loc should stop selling baggies? Blah blah blah... right?

What? Are you high?

I guess I came to the wrong site for HELP.

No, you came to the wrong site if you expected people to do your work for you. Sorry.

So, you said something about blacklisted... blacklisted by who?

Your ISP. If they find out that your account has been spamming (whether its your fault or not), they'll cancel your account, and you'll have a very hard time finding another decent company to carry you.

It's potentially worse than that. If the web-hosting ISP is seen to be the source of a lot of spam then they could find themselves listed on one of the many spam blacklists. This could mean that other spam-concious ISPs will refuse to accept any email originating from that ISP. This is bound to make the person responsible for the blacklisting very unpopular with all the other customers.

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