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Hawkslayer
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Joined: 26/10/2002 16:00:35
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Some time ago a guy posted the IP address of a site that was posting to multiple advanced guestbooks. Does anyone have the IP address? I'd like to add it to my banned IP address list.

Hawkslayer

http://www.fuchsialand.co.uk
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spor
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Joined: 18/04/2003 05:02:37
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212.98.150.6
thats the one Jared gave me.

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Hawkslayer
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Joined: 26/10/2002 16:00:35
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Thanks for that. They have spammed me in the past.

Hawkslayer

http://www.fuchsialand.co.uk
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Jared
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Joined: 07/01/2003 22:58:43
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You will have to add the entry in your htaccess as 212.98

that will ban his entire ISP. He has a dynamic IP address, and blocking the actual referring site will not help.

Don't worry, it is an ISP from Beirut, Lebanon. I don't think too many people are concerned about Lebanese visiting your website.

two other things to consider, which is what I have done, is to change the action method of gb_action to a customized method of either just action or gb_actionmethod. That will cause him to have to rewright his script just to suit your site (won't happen) or to add a human verification system.

I did all three, and also added a bot block, and added a spam trap, and encryted the email addreses.

very very effective. No problems since
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