Spam in guestbook

[Margie]

How can I keep spam out of my guestbook? I have to go in
regularly and manually delete the offensive entries. Is
there a way to prevent it?

 

[Tom Pepper Willett]

There's nothing else you can do.
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| How can I keep spam out of my guestbook? I have to go in
| regularly and manually delete the offensive entries. Is
| there a way to prevent it?

 

[Joe Rohn]

Hi Margie,

If you have your FP guestbook live and online..as Tom mentioned you cannot
directly prevent this.

About the only thing you can do is to use a Guestbook that requires
registration (which will cut down on some.. but not all)

Or possibly have entries emailed to you..and then you can filter them and
only post appropriate ones.

 

[Ronx]

You cannot stop it, but changing the name of the guestbook from
guestbook.htm may cut it down for a while.

 

[Kulvinder Singh Matharu]

How can I keep spam out of my guestbook? I have to go in
regularly and manually delete the offensive entries. Is
there a way to prevent it?

As far as I am aware, there is no effective technique available.

However, have you thought about ditching the guestbook altogether?
Does the guestbook really serve a useful purpose? Would a form do
instead?

That's what I did. I ditched the guestbook and got a Perl-scripted
form instead. Try here for a couple of well written ones...

http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/scripts.shtml

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[Mike Mueller]

The stock guestbook has no method of filtering out spam. You
would need to use a server side script of some type to
prevent it.

The script at the site below (written in PERL) may be help
if your host can work with it

I don't have the ability to use that, but I can use ASP
scripts on my host- I wrote a script to pull all of the gb
info and send me an email so I can check it. If it is OK
then I just post it to the db that contains my guestbook
entries. Currently 75% of my gb entries are spam, so I
delete alot of emails....



Kulvinder Singh Matharu wrote:
: On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 01:53:04 -0800, "Margie"
:
:: How can I keep spam out of my guestbook? I have to go in
:: regularly and manually delete the offensive entries. Is
:: there a way to prevent it?
:
: As far as I am aware, there is no effective technique
: available.
:
: However, have you thought about ditching the guestbook
: altogether? Does the guestbook really serve a useful
: purpose? Would a form do instead?
:
: That's what I did. I ditched the guestbook and got a
: Perl-scripted form instead. Try here for a couple of well
: written ones...
:
: http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/scripts.shtml