[thelist] I have a question (I'm a novice)

[Norman Bunn]

At 12:26 PM 9/5/2003, Hill, Don wrote:
>I participate in a message board for high school sports and academics where
>we are constantly bombarded by offensive garbage from one particular user
>(who uses MANY aliases). He as also begun to clog a contest site run by one
>of the board participant with hundreds of bogus entries. This guy lives to
>make other, legitimate people on the board miserable. We are trying to find
>a way to block his posts, but mainly block his submissions to the contest
>site. The contest site has a space for entering an email address and he
>keeps entering new, bogus ones. When he submits, we know that Bellsouth is
>his ISP, but, since they use dynamic IP addresses, we cant block a
>particular one and hope to have success. Any advice on either find out who
>this guy is OR permanently blocking him would be MOST appreciated.
>--

Most BBS's provide a feature to require registrations be approved by a 
moderator or admin before being activated.  If you also followup with email 
address validation, you should be able to keep this jerk out.

Norman
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