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Tim
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      16th Feb 2008
Help.
I created a website with FrontPage 2003 a few years ago. The site includes a
page where visitors can send comments. The comments then show up in my
personal email as sent by the site's host server. Lately I've been receiving
a lot of spam that originate from about a dozen specific IP addresses. Is
there some way I can block those IP addresses?
Thanks,
Tim
 
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Thomas A. Rowe
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      16th Feb 2008
Not when using the FP form handler, however you can see if your web host is willing to block them or
you will need to switch to using server-side scripting to process your forms, when you can then
write code to block bad users to certain degree.

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"Tim" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Help.
> I created a website with FrontPage 2003 a few years ago. The site includes a
> page where visitors can send comments. The comments then show up in my
> personal email as sent by the site's host server. Lately I've been receiving
> a lot of spam that originate from about a dozen specific IP addresses. Is
> there some way I can block those IP addresses?
> Thanks,
> Tim



 
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      18th Feb 2008
I have found if you rename the page (and update the links) the spam comments
stop. I THINK they are using 3rd world labor to find these using "comments"
as the search word. Those people then populate and configure a script that
submits that crap.

What I do is rename the page, then renam all the form field names too,
remove the word "comments" from the page (don't use feedback, contact us,
etc. either). If you do that, the script can't find the form anymore, and
then when they go fishing for more forms to spam, they are less likely to
find it again.

You will get a certain amount of spam no matter what you do though.

"Thomas A. Rowe" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Not when using the FP form handler, however you can see if your web host
> is willing to block them or you will need to switch to using server-side
> scripting to process your forms, when you can then write code to block bad
> users to certain degree.
>
> --
> ==============================================
> Thomas A. Rowe
> Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
>
> http://www.Ecom-Data.com
> ==============================================
>
>
> "Tim" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:23ED335F-33DC-402F-9031-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Help.
>> I created a website with FrontPage 2003 a few years ago. The site
>> includes a
>> page where visitors can send comments. The comments then show up in my
>> personal email as sent by the site's host server. Lately I've been
>> receiving
>> a lot of spam that originate from about a dozen specific IP addresses. Is
>> there some way I can block those IP addresses?
>> Thanks,
>> Tim

>
>



 
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