Some poor schmuck looking for an open formmail.pl relay on my server. I honestly felt pity for the guy; 403 and 404 errors all day long can really take the wind out of your sails. So I decided to give the troller something useful to read (repetition is the key to learning).
This brief Perl script has brought me joy; my desire is that it brings formmail.pl trollers joy also. The script, when completely finished, returns an HTML page approximately 10,000,000 bytes long (10MB) and it takes about 2 minutes to do that (the select statement slows things down, so all the joy does not come at once).
I was surprised to see I am getting these as well: anyone who’s still looking for (or hosting) formmail.pl (which wasn’t Y2K-safe) deserves whatever they get.