Pornographers Attack Holysmoke.org!

Holysmoke.org once had a place where its viewers could share their favorate URLs / web sites with other viewers. Net pornographers took advantage of that generosity by abusing it. They used (and are still using) an attack robot (an automated program) to send hundreds of URLs to that page, trying to advertise their repulsive "services."

Here is the statistic for the attacks:

  Jan 2000     Bytes         Feb 2000      Bytes
  Assaults      Sent         Assaults       Sent
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      6251   1369764            18069    3953712

To defend my server, I have rewritten the script so that when the attacking robot attempts to post its advertisement, it gets educated on evolution, evolutionary theory, and creationism instead. The robot looks at "http://holysmoke.org/cgi-bin/links.pl" and thinks it is the original User's Links page. It isn't.