Re: Anyone know how to keep spammers out of a guestbook!

Easily done with ASP, PHP etc., but impossible with FrontPage
extensions (clientside JavaScript is too unreliable for this - disable
JavaScript and validation/checking is gone...)
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Ron Symonds
Microsoft MVP (FrontPage)
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"Uncle Joe" <Uncle Jose@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:u0FCHAZwFHA.2212@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Ah, an elegant solution to a vexing problem. Don't think
> Larry will buy this, though.
>
> I don't know the first thing about doing this in modern coding
> languages but surely there's a way to analyze the text field for
> HTML code such as "http" and "www." If you detected these,
> clear the text field, close the guestbook page, and forget
> about the spammers. I used to do these kinds of things
> in an ancient language known COBOL. Wish I could help
> but I'm just starting with all this new-fangled stuff..
>
>
> "Tom J" <tomj_ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:dDoZe.3641$QE1.1543@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> "larry.k" <larrykleinschmidt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:%23kyEUdLwFHA.2792@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Hi, I'm looking for a way to keep the spammers from loading my
>>> guestbook
>>> with their weblinks!
>>
>> Do away with the guest book!! Works wonders!
>>
>> Tom J
>>
>
>


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