Re: IP Address Filtering

if you really want to mess with them.. only show the user with the NULL IP address all the spam posts.. .make them think that they've been successful On 3/29/06, Rahul S. Johari <rjohari@nycap.rr.com> wrote: > > Ave, > > I¹ve run into a slight problem. We maintain a Guestbook for our company¹s > website. Lately we have been getting a lot of ³Spam² entries into the > Guestbook. > > I added a snippet into the PHP Script & a field in the mySQL database to > record the IP Address of posters. However, for the SPAM posts, it records > ³Null² instead of an IP Address. I¹m using $REMOTE_ADDR to records the IP. > It records IP Addresses of any genuine poster... But NULL for the spam > poster. > > What else can I do to block the SPAM entry? Is there some other Unique > Identifier that I can record of the Spam poster and then block him? > > Thanks, > > Rahul S. Johari > Coordinator, Internet & Administration > Informed Marketing Services Inc. > 500 Federal Street, Suite 201 > Troy NY 12180 > > Tel: (518) 687-6700 x154 > Fax: (518) 687-6799 > Email: rahul@informed-sources.com > http://www.informed-sources.com > > > -- Joe Harman --------- * My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.