How do I find out who is posting to my form?

[JJ]

Hi,

I have a web page, where users fill out their name and address, and I send
them a free catalog.

The problem is that someone is filling my form out about 100 times a day
throughout the day with peoples information, who don't want the catalog!

I have tracked the ip address (all different) and the http referrer, which
doesn't really tell me much. and looked in the iis logs, which lists the
ipaddresses.

How can I find out who is posting to my form???
I think it is spam related or something.

Any Ideas Appreciated.

Thanks

JJ

[Ray at]

Re: How do I find out who is posting to my form?

You can't. You can report the abuse to the netblock owners of the IPs, but
they're probably open proxies if all the IPs are different or something.

You could setup an e-mail verification for the catalog requests, although
the abuser could setup multiple e-mail accounts and still harass you if he's
that motivated.

You could also monitor for time periods that have exceptionally large
numbers of requests.

Ray at work

"JJ" <nospam> wrote in message
news:3f2004a6$0 $11377$cc9e4d1f @news.dial.pipe x.com...[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> I have a web page, where users fill out their name and address, and I send
> them a free catalog.
>
> The problem is that someone is filling my form out about 100 times a day
> throughout the day with peoples information, who don't want the catalog!
>
> I have tracked the ip address (all different) and the http referrer, which
> doesn't really tell me much. and looked in the iis logs, which lists the
> ipaddresses.
>
> How can I find out who is posting to my form???
> I think it is spam related or something.
>
> Any Ideas Appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> JJ
>
>[/color]

[Don Verhagen]

Re: How do I find out who is posting to my form?

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Ray at <%=sLocation% > <%=sLocation% > typed:
: You can't. You can report the abuse to the netblock owners of the
: IPs, but they're probably open proxies if all the IPs are different
: or something.
:
: You could setup an e-mail verification for the catalog requests,

I.E
User Fills out the form, including email address
User Submits Form
You write it to a server side database with a requestid, requestdate,
requesttime
Send an email with a link it in (for example) to the email address

http://www.example.com/confirm.asp?requestid=1234

When the user clicks on the link (or manually enters it) you then mark the
catalog request as confirmed and proceed as you did before.

Delete any requests that haven't been confirmed for n days.


: although the abuser could setup multiple e-mail accounts and still
: harass you if he's that motivated.
:
: You could also monitor for time periods that have exceptionally large
: numbers of requests.
:
: Ray at work
:
: "JJ" <nospam> wrote in message
: news:3f2004a6$0 $11377$cc9e4d1f @news.dial.pipe x.com...
:: Hi,
::
:: I have a web page, where users fill out their name and address, and
:: I send them a free catalog.
::
:: The problem is that someone is filling my form out about 100 times a
:: day throughout the day with peoples information, who don't want the
:: catalog!
::
:: I have tracked the ip address (all different) and the http referrer,
:: which doesn't really tell me much. and looked in the iis logs, which
:: lists the ipaddresses.
::
:: How can I find out who is posting to my form???
:: I think it is spam related or something.
::
:: Any Ideas Appreciated.
::
:: Thanks
::
:: JJ