Posted by Dan on 11/24/07 15:18

Thanks for all the help all!

Yeah the users are anonymous when submitting information so there
really is no way to keep track of them, as there are no usernames and
passwords to go around.

I was toying with the idea of maybe creating a buffer of submissions,
with their IP address, and maybe checking the buffer every 5 seconds
or so and seeing if there was an inordinate amount of submissions from
the same IP address. I'd then flush the buffer and process the
requests if there was no bad juju detected. This is out of my league
at the moment though, and wouldn't really solve the problem of proxy
servers, or say if a botnet decided to focus it's attention on my
amateurish website. :P

But once again thanks for the help! :D

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