If you have applied all the anti-spam mods that Carbonize has provided and are still getting SPAM, I have figured out how to relieve the problem <img src="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/clapping.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":clapping:" border="0" alt="clapping.gif" /> <br /><br />Simply change the name of the folder that you have your guestbook in.<br /><br />The spammers are people who apparently have nothing better to do other than go through search engines with phrases like "Advanced Guestbook" or "Leave your mark" as their search criteria.<br /><br />By changing the name of the folder that you keep the guestbook in, when they click the link, they get a 404 error. Or, I set up a redirect to a custom 403.shtml page that basically tells them to go away.<br /><br />When I start to receive the spam again, I know that a web spider has crawled my site. So... I change the name of the folder again. etc.<br /><br />Instead of cleaning up my book on a daily basis, I may clean up 2 or 3 every few weeks.<br /><br />My 0.02<!--content-->
Oh, and of course I change the hyperlink to it on my site........<!--content-->
While I don't have a guestbook on any of my sites, that seems to me like an easy way to go! Thanks for sharing!<!--content-->
Not so easy when a person may have dozens of different pages with a link to the guestbook. <img src="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/sad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
" border="0" alt="sad.gif" /> That would be a real pain on my site.<!--content-->
Oh, and of course I change the hyperlink to it on my site........<!--content-->
While I don't have a guestbook on any of my sites, that seems to me like an easy way to go! Thanks for sharing!<!--content-->
Not so easy when a person may have dozens of different pages with a link to the guestbook. <img src="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/sad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
" border="0" alt="sad.gif" /> That would be a real pain on my site.<!--content-->