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Not sure exactly what youre doing here. It sounds like you just want to
keep people off web forms. If thats the case just install a captcha
check. The only other way is to just keep a manually generated list,
which is going to be pointless cause there are tons of IPs you'll have
to block.<br>
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If were talking email, use spamhaus's block lists. theyre free and
reliable. That ip you gave is even on 2 of them. <a
href="http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=68.63.83.12">http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=68.63.83.12</a><br>
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Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2008 10:41:41 AM<br>
From: Bob Meetin <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:bobm@dottedi.biz"><bobm@dottedi.biz></a><br>
To: CLUE tech <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:clue-tech@cluedenver.org"><clue-tech@cluedenver.org></a>
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Subject: [clue-tech] SPAM trap
<blockquote cite="mid:4943F3D5.60602@dottedi.biz" type="cite">I have
some spam-checking in my forms, also a simple script that catches/logs
IP addresses of spammers. I can add the IP addresses to deny lists or
even make up a list to work with my forms to prevent their access to a
page or possibly the site itself, but knowing that spammers can change
their IP easily I would like to use a wildcard approach. So say I have:
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68.63.83.12 <br>
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Is there a PHP script that I could include in my forms that will do a
lookup against a master list and if found, deny the cretin? Option B
would be to manually do a lookup of the IP address (against some online
DB) and if tracked to, say Bangladash, Africa, remote China or even
South Florida, then manually add to my deny list. Most of my clients
are small, do local regional business. <br>
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If I am able to track the culprit to one of these distant places would
it make sense to add the IP root ( 68.63.83 ) to my db and not the
complete IP address? <br>
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