Re: Guest Book by Marion
Marion
Sat Oct 22 03:32:07 CDT 2005
Quite right. I naively put my email address on my web site, little
realising the consequences. I have now had to change my ISP and my email
adddress because of the all the rubbish. I have Norton Anti-Spam and all
sorts of filters set up, but these people know how to bypass anything like
that. You do not need a guestbook.
"Mike Mueller" <MyName@ecinet.net.net> wrote in message
news:ud7JsWP1FHA.2880@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> The built in form handler cannot do this. Which is a good
> thing...
>
> Guest books are frequently targets for spam. It is not so
> much to clog your guestbook, but they put links in it aiming
> back at their sites. When Google etc come by you are now
> linking to them, so they get even more business. Throw your
> email address in there and now its in your email box
>
> When I first set up my guestbook, the FP extensions were not
> 100% on my site, and I was fresh in web design. What I ended
> up doing was using a form to feed into a database, and to
> display the posts I used a database results page. Worked
> fine. And then some spam came, along with some inappropriate
> posts
>
> I by then had learned some coding, and I wrote an asp page
> which sent the submission to me, and then I would approve or
> disapprove and submit it to the db. Worked fine for awhile,
> and I picked out a handful of bad posts weekly
>
> And then BAMM. Now people were building search engines that
> looked for guestbooks. All of the sudden I was getting
> hundreds of entries daily. I threw in a primitive version of
> CAPTHA and that cut it down to a hanful a week again
>
> You will see guestbook and form spamming quite often in the
> FP newsgroups. My best advice is to not use a guestbook. I
> shut mine down
>
>
>
>
>
> "bp" <bp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:70EF1D36-B3D1-48A7-916F-1CF3967502CE@microsoft.com...
> :I am developing website for small community. I want to add
> guest book and
> : response of guest book should be sent to my email address.
> : So it means that on submission of comments in guestbook,
> comments should be
> : passed to my personal email address. Does frontpage has
> got this utility to
> : use such as response of guestbook detail should be sent to
> my email address.
> : Can you please help me on this query?
> :
> : Thanking you
>
>