Frontpage guest books should have moderator approval

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Every guestbook I put up gets found by spammers and gets stuffed full with
spam, which has been very depressing. I would really like a guestbook that
is bot-proof - either through some sort of verification, or just simply by
having a approval system where I have to approve an entry before it gets
posted. Is there a way to do that, or can it get added to Frontpage's
guestbook?

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Frustrating isn't it. There is no way to change the way the
FP guestbook works, and the problem is not limited to FP, as
my guestbbook is a custom application and has been barraged
also.

Renaming the files is a temporary fix. It seems that as soon
as the search engines find the guestbook again, the spammers
do to. They are probably using a script which is scraping
the results of a search engine. You can try to change the
meta tags and robots.txt file so that the search engines do
not index the guestbook. Just came up with that one, but it
makes sense if they are scraping

I ended up modifying the custom script for my guestbook. I
made a cheap version of the 'security' image that many sites
use on their sign up pages, and it has not failed yet.
--example: http://www.lannonfire.com/Guestbook/add.asp

Mike



"Evan Reynolds" <Evan (e-mail address removed)>
wrote in message
: Every guestbook I put up gets found by spammers and gets
stuffed full with
: spam, which has been very depressing. I would really like
a guestbook that
: is bot-proof - either through some sort of verification,
or just simply by
: having a approval system where I have to approve an entry
before it gets
: posted. Is there a way to do that, or can it get added to
Frontpage's
: guestbook?
 
That's pretty cool!

How exactly did you do that? I'll copy it if I get instructions :-)

Cordially,
Diana O
 
Your script needs some error checking
I get an ASP error when I don't; enter the word

Microsoft VBScript compilation error '800a0400'
Expected statement
/Guestbook/TryAgain.asp, line 169
""& strName &""


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| Frustrating isn't it. There is no way to change the way the
| FP guestbook works, and the problem is not limited to FP, as
| my guestbbook is a custom application and has been barraged
| also.
|
| Renaming the files is a temporary fix. It seems that as soon
| as the search engines find the guestbook again, the spammers
| do to. They are probably using a script which is scraping
| the results of a search engine. You can try to change the
| meta tags and robots.txt file so that the search engines do
| not index the guestbook. Just came up with that one, but it
| makes sense if they are scraping
|
| I ended up modifying the custom script for my guestbook. I
| made a cheap version of the 'security' image that many sites
| use on their sign up pages, and it has not failed yet.
| --example: http://www.lannonfire.com/Guestbook/add.asp
|
| Mike
|
|
|
| "Evan Reynolds" <Evan (e-mail address removed)>
| wrote in message
| | : Every guestbook I put up gets found by spammers and gets
| stuffed full with
| : spam, which has been very depressing. I would really like
| a guestbook that
| : is bot-proof - either through some sort of verification,
| or just simply by
| : having a approval system where I have to approve an entry
| before it gets
| : posted. Is there a way to do that, or can it get added to
| Frontpage's
| : guestbook?
|
|
 
He is using server side scripting (Vbscript on a .asp page) to process the form results
- not available in the std FP guestbook template which use html

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| That's pretty cool!
|
| How exactly did you do that? I'll copy it if I get instructions :-)
|
| Cordially,
| Diana O
|
| "Mike Mueller" wrote:
|
| > Frustrating isn't it. There is no way to change the way the
| > FP guestbook works, and the problem is not limited to FP, as
| > my guestbbook is a custom application and has been barraged
| > also.
| >
| > Renaming the files is a temporary fix. It seems that as soon
| > as the search engines find the guestbook again, the spammers
| > do to. They are probably using a script which is scraping
| > the results of a search engine. You can try to change the
| > meta tags and robots.txt file so that the search engines do
| > not index the guestbook. Just came up with that one, but it
| > makes sense if they are scraping
| >
| > I ended up modifying the custom script for my guestbook. I
| > made a cheap version of the 'security' image that many sites
| > use on their sign up pages, and it has not failed yet.
| > --example: http://www.lannonfire.com/Guestbook/add.asp
| >
| > Mike
| >
| >
| >
| > "Evan Reynolds" <Evan (e-mail address removed)>
| > wrote in message
| > | > : Every guestbook I put up gets found by spammers and gets
| > stuffed full with
| > : spam, which has been very depressing. I would really like
| > a guestbook that
| > : is bot-proof - either through some sort of verification,
| > or just simply by
| > : having a approval system where I have to approve an entry
| > before it gets
| > : posted. Is there a way to do that, or can it get added to
| > Frontpage's
| > : guestbook?
| >
| >
| >
 
I stuck this line of code in the <HEAD> section of my guestbook page about
six month ago and so far, so good:

<meta name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW">

It has worked so well that I have since added it to my Code Snippets (Tools
| Page Options) and included it on any page that I don't want indexed by the
search engines.
 
and what has THAT got to do with moderated Frontpage guestbooks?

"Kim Floyde (Montrose, Colorado USA)"
 
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