[face=Verdana][/face] I developed a Guest Book for our ministry's site.  We are now receiving "spam" from the entries.  Many are vulgar in content and I receive possibly 15-20 messages every day!  I have been told there is a way to configure the guest book to reject this type entry.  The site was developed with FrontPage 2003, but doing research on this configuration has not been successful.  Does anyone have any ideas of how to do this?  

My hosting company provides several stat reports and the countries these messages are supposedly originating are not showing on the stats, so I'm thinking this has to be spam.  

I've completed all the diagnostics on my computer; no spyware, no adware, and no viruses.  

Any help would be appreciated greatly!

Sue

   One thing that you could do is require anyone who writes in your guest book to first register with the guest book.  Registering would require them to give their email address and then for you to confirm their email address before they write anything in your guest book.  That can all be done automatically.  I would think that there are guest books out there that do that.  Then you can block email addresses of people who write vulgar comments.
   Another possibility would be to block his IP address.  I would think that your hosting company can give you his IP address.  Look that IP address up on the internet and that will tell you his provider.  You would then need to block the whole range of IP addresses his provider has.  Whether you want to do this or not depends on who his provider is and how many innocent people you want to block.  I would think that you could report the incident to his provider (again depending on the provider this may or may not work).
   The last option is to ignore him and hope he goes away.  Someday he will tire and leave.  Of course, though, if your ministry deals with a hot topic like politics, abortion, or evolution, there may be a constant stream of wackos writing in your guest book.

Thanks so much for the quick reply.  We use a guest book that does require the registering and that works great, but we also had the generic for prayer requests, tape requests, etc.  I went back and reviewed some of the message headers in detail.  There was no way to track their originating source and my hosting company could not offer any help as the messages were coming through their server.  

I guess you could say that I took what you would call the coward's way; I just opted to zap the guest book.  We really didn't address such controversial topics as abortion, etc. to cause such terrible messages, but the really sick people don't need those topics to display their sick minds; they just need an open door to an email address.  

Again, thanks!  This site is great and has helped me tremendously in many ways.  

Sue