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February is coming to an end, and it is time for another weekly update from eZ systems. This week we bring you news about bug-fix releases for the eZ components, eZ publish 3.8 , partners together with the list of new and modified bugs this week.
However, the problem isn't necessarily that they are attempting to use the contact forms. The problem that exists is that the average coder with little or no understanding of security issues can create a contact form for their website which can act as an open invitation to spammers.
It has become apparent that spammers are getting even more smarter than we take them for. Rather than abuse open relays, which are almost non-existent, these scum-of-the-earth 'traders' are now abusing contact forms.
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He notes that many web services offer the software, but quite a few of them are older versions and won't install the latest PHP apps very well. His "adventures" with an installation of Drupal was what led him to dicsover this product - and, in his words, "it was fantastic".

I just ran David Wheeler's SLOCCount tool on a copy of eZ publish 3.7.3. David describes SLOCCount as:
a set of tools for counting physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC) in a large number of languages of a potentially large set of programs.
The tool generated a bunch of interesting stats, including an estimated cost to develop the eZ publish codebase: $5,701,201 USD.

I just ran David Wheeler's SLOCCount tool on a copy of eZ publish 3.7.3, WordPress 2.0.1 and eZ components 1.0. The tool generated a bunch of interesting stats, including an estimated cost to develop the eZ publish 3.7.3 codebase of $5,701,201 USD.
