What types of spam are you getting? Bot POST calls or are these actual people?
There isn't much you can do to recognize a specific person. There's cookies but I would rely on an IP match over a cookie match. According to Jupiter Research reports, 39% of users delete cookies on a regular basis. Plus bots don't store cookies and most spammers block cookies. The main thing you have to worry about with IP records is proxies. I don't know how much work your willing to put into this but, most major ISPs that use proxies make a list of their network IP's publicly available. Combine that with a list of all public and anonymous proxy servers and you would have a pretty good list. All that list would do is flag that you should _not_ ban that user's IP (it could be used by a another user at a completely different location.) There are more issues to deal with too, such as shared broadband connections, corporate firewalls. Well, I bet you are ready to give up on the IP matching thing after hearing this. So, answer the questions above more specifically and I'll see if I can help in another way. - Daniel -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jake McKee Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 12:57 AM To: [email protected] Subject: What specific info? All, I've been trying to figure out some better ways to avoid comment spam on my blog. I've implemented and worked on a number of ideas in general. from the past.But specifically looking at one particular idea for a minute - capturing user data when they submit a comment and if it matches "known" spammers Besides IP address (which we all know is questionable at best), what other "personal" information can I grab when the user submits a form? Thanks! Jake ---------------------------------------------------------- To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberUnsubscribe.cfm To subscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberRegistration.cfm ---------------------------------------------------------- To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberUnsubscribe.cfm To subscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberRegistration.cfm
