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Welcome Guestbook Spam Sports Fans!

Guestbook spammers from April 05, 2006 thru December 18, 2007: 20,241
(database must be reset regularly due to large volume of spammers!)

Guestbook spam attempts since December 18, 2007:   7178   (click here to view)

Once upon a time I had a nice, peaceful, fun-loving guestbook. Friends, family and people from far away lands would visit my humble website and leave cool messages for me. But one day the spammers came and ruined things for us. Now we have moderated forums or some that require human validation by punching in random letters/numbers from a graphic image.

Ever since I closed my old guestbook, in the fall of 2005, I have found hundreds of entries in my server error logs. Almost all of them refer to the "sign.php" message post page of the now deceased guestbook. Looking up the I.P. addresses showed each attempt came from an "open proxy server". And the I.P. addresses change a lot.

I attempted to block I.P. addresses, but after a few weeks I had over 600 IPs in my blocked list! And new ones were still coming! Their persistance to reach a closed guestbook is unbelieveable.

So what's a guy to do? I have all these spam bots trying to reach my site and can never block them all. I can't monetize their incessant traffic and they won't go away. Well, I decided to LOG THEM! I created a new "sign.php" page. Instead of submitting an entry in a guestbook, it captures and records the visiting I.P. address into a database. Click here to view the current spam attempt list!

Of course this will not slow the spread of junk guestbook spamming across the internet, but it is interesting to see when and from where they come. The data is real-time; when I get a hit on my old sign page it is immediately entered into the database. Have fun!

 
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