[thelist] I have cheaters on my site.

Christopher Ditty CDitty at email.usps.gov
Tue Apr 4 09:50:45 2000


     Hello all.

     I have a small prblem.  My personal site(www.redhotsweeps.com) is
     dedicated to Sweepstakes, Contests and games.  Well, it seems that
     there are a few websites outthere that want to help people cheat by
     entering their information for them.  Now, for all the other contests
     and sweepstakes on the net, they can police their own entries.  I am
     more conserned with my contests and games.

     I went through the access log file this am and did find 5 or so ip
     addresses coming from a certain site that enters for people.  I
     matched each of these IPs with an email address and their entries will
     be void.  My problem is this, I don't have time to search through the
     log files every day.  Can someone think of some kind of solution that
     I can implement easily?  I was thinking about just banning their IP
     from the site, but that might get innocent people.  What about logging
     each hit that comes from said site and "marking" them somehow.

     Any suggestions are appreciated.

     Thanks

     CDitty