For perspective. Imagine someone walking into a gun club with a loaded homemade gun, finger on the trigger, pointing here and there asking about how to shoot better. FormMail.pl is an infamous zipgun and one of the main pillars upon which Perl-FUD was erected. It inspires nearly rabid responses. There’s no way you could know that. Hacker culture is grating and without caveats you’ll be treated as a hacker. Most of us earned our chops though thousands of hours of the pain you’ve just enjoyed. When someone asks us to donate that pain, sometimes it’s taken as an affront. :P Nobody wanted to be rude in fact though. Not you, not monks. Don’t take it personally.

Maybe I'm wasting my time with Perl. Seems like the whole thing could be accomplished with php.

It sure could. Or C or Java or Ruby or Python or JavaScript or Scala or… Jenda is right I think. We definitely will help you but maybe you should back-up to your original intent and describe what you’re trying to do.

Signed,
An English Major that got tired of being poor and unemployed :P

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

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