Guestbook issue

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gmw

I kow guestbooks have fallen out of favor but some of hte people I done
websites for still want them. The problem is that the guestbooks end up
being spamed, filled with links to junk sites. Anyone know any FP add ins
or ASP trciks to keep the spammers at bay?
 
There really is nothing that you can do, that will be a long term solution, accept to not use the
guest book.

Any web based application that is open to the public, and requires no login/password to access will
be subject to being spammed.

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gmw

Here is the progression of what I have done. I get about 1
spam per month now. These were done progressively as I
learned how to code asp.

#1 Ditched FP version- went with form -> database -> drw
page for the guestbook
#2 Added an asp page to read the form and send an html form
via email to me.. The form written by the html code was
prepopulated with the entries from the guestbook entry page.
Now all of the entries came to me, and all I needed to do
was click on the submit button if it was ok. A second asp
page was written at the same time to receive the results
from the email form and place them into the database
#3 Now all the spam was ending up in my email- added a
'security image'so that the person making the entry had to
type in the text that was in the graphic

Been doing good so far, but I am ready to ditch it...

gmw wrote:
: I kow guestbooks have fallen out of favor but some of hte
: people I done websites for still want them. The problem
: is that the guestbooks end up being spamed, filled with
: links to junk sites. Anyone know any FP add ins or ASP
: trciks to keep the spammers at bay?
 
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