The Bool website ( http://www.bool.co.il ) has quite a few message boards running using custom-made perl & MySQL software (A sample message board can be found here: http://www.bool.co.il/cgi-bin/bu.cgi?page=forum&forum=22343 ) We would like to implement a feature that will prevent users from "flooding" message boards with the same message over a short period of time (a few minutes). However, we are not sure how to do that. Anyone have any ideas? We currently have about 200-300 messages posted daily, and the numbers are growing all the time. Thanks, Shoshannah Forbes -- Hebrew services for site owners http://www.bool.co.il Moderator, site builder forum http://forums.nana.co.il/forum.asp?id=17 Personal site: http://www.forbes.co.il