The danger is a bit different. It's not about spam being directed at you, but rather span originating from your machines. The script could be used by a spammer to instruct your mail server to send spam. You might not care so much about the processor time of your servers or the network usage, but you might easily find yourself unable to send email, because your server would get blocked as a source of spam. You might find your whole network blocked, though I believe your internet provider would contact you beforehand.

Your post seems to be a textbook example of the XY Problem. Instead of telling us what the problem is and getting an easy to follow advice you've spent hours (I assume) trying to implement a non-solution. You are making things harder for yourself.

Jenda
Enoch was right!
Enjoy the last years of Rome.

In reply to Re^3: CGI Honeypot? by Jenda
in thread CGI Honeypot? by Hans Castorp

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