Hi Diane, > I have a customer who has an "email this to a friend" page > that's being abused, and he's catching a great of flack over > it. He wants me to record IP addresses when people sign > up for the forum and the email list, etc., and to provide the > IP address in the subject line of the "email this to a friend" > email. I'm happy to do it, but I was wondering if anyone > on this list had any additional suggestions?
IPs are not very trustworthy. Many people surf from behind proxies and you'll get the IP of the proxy for these visitors. Some ISPs (AOL, most notably) are one giant proxy, and *any* traffic from these ISPs will look like it comes from the same IP address. Depending on the nature of the abuse you might be able to get away with setting a cookie on the visitor's computer and not allowing them to send out more than 5 pages a day... what's actually happening? Cheers Jon ____ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
