Hi Pete, ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pete" > It might also be a good idea to block search engines with robots.txt -
I had it in my robots.txt. Maybe they read these in their search? > I would never finish the list of banned words! The stuff I was getting were all links: <a href="http://www.pdaearth.info/index.php";>pda</a> [url=http://www.squidoo.com/Hemorrhoid/]hemorrhoids treatment[/url] so '<a.*a>' and 'url.*url' caught it all in the regex. I left the actual website addresses in just in case he puts non-clickable links in, as he's tried everything else. > I disagree that they target one person. This one definitely did. He even threatened me, and told me what exactly what he thought of me, but I take your point. Once I'd blocked him, he increased it to every 30 seconds for just over 2 weeks before he gave up. He still has a go about once a week trying different things, but they're all blocked up to now. What I did notice is that automated spam doesn't send the language, but neither do search engines. I tried this method, but saw search engines listed in my log and had to stop. It would take a list of all search engines so they would be allowed through. > I just would like to know how, so that I can securely stop them. I > haven't had time to search for systems to use for spam yet, but I would > guess that is the way - figure out how they get in, then stop them. I would have thought a CAPTCHA would have done the job, except those with Optical Character Recognition, which I wouldn't think too many have? I've just put one on, but mainly just to learn how to do it. Hope you find a solution. Regards, Bob Exton. Community email addresses: Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shortcut URL to this page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-list Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-list/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-list/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
