In my first message, all I was asking for was some guideance. Your 
reply in this message has done just that. Thankyou for your time and 
reply.

--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Shawn K. Hall" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Dennis,
> 
> > Thoughts that ran through my head ...
> 
> David had several valid points - all of which have been covered 
here,
> and elsewhere, MANY times.
> 
> 
> > 1. If your not going to help in this forum,
> > take your mouse pointer and stick it where
> > it does some good.
> 
> He's also been "helping" in this forum (and even had the decency to
> answer your anything-but-explanatory request) for years.
> 
> 
> > 2. You found a life slamming people in forums.
> 
> As did *you,* apparently.
> 
> 
> As far as your question - *what* you log or *how* you log will 
**not**
> prevent user account abuse.
> 
> Another option, however, is to bind the account to a specific IP
> address for the duration of the users' login (<% rs.open "select *
> from status where user='" & session("user") & "';", cn: if
> session("ip")<>rs("ip") then response.redirect "/sorry.asp" %>) - 
and
> clean out the 'expired' records in the db once every 20 minutes or 
so
> (update the table to indicate when the last 'hit' was). You might 
also
> provide a means for them to force a logout of their prior login in
> order to kill orphaned sessions, and create a unique key on 'user' 
in
> the db so only one record may exist in the table for any given user
> account.
> 
> This way, too, you're not collecting any information you don't
> actually need, nor expecting to resolve it after the fact - just fix
> it *now* by refusing multiple logins.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Shawn K. Hall
> Active-Server-Pages Moderator
> http://ReliableAnswers.com/
> 
> '// ========================================================
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