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**andersonweb** · 04:40 PM

Hi, there,

I have a guestbook program that I wrote a few years ago. But, recently my site was somehow targetted by many, many spammers. So, I am planning to upgrade my program with spam filters. I was wondering if anyone knows where I can find a fairly recent txt or xml file with a list of spam target words. I've tried to do searches on several SE's but have come up empty. The only one I found was last updated in 2002. Might as well not even bother at that point.

Thanks in advance for any direction anyone here can give.

**andersonweb** · 06-08-2006, 12:49 PM

Thought I'd post my solution here just in case anyone else has the same question in the future. I ended up going a different and bit easier route to block those horridly irritating spammers. So far it seems to be working. Where I was getting about 10 spammers a day, there have been none in the past several days. I simply inserted a checkpoint into my script that checks for an http or www in the strings being submitted and if found, exit the script. Seems to have fixed the problem quite nicely!

**chrishirst** · 06-08-2006, 03:15 PM

for now!

Look at using a CAPTCHA method of verifying that it isn't a bot filling the form in