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Brummygirl
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Months of peace and now its started again, arrgggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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Hiya, HAVE A LOOK AT MY WEBSITE: http://www.warwickshire-info.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ IF YOU ARE RESEARCHING IN BIRMINGHAM, ASTON OR COVENTRY, I HAVE TRANSCRIBED HUNDREDS OF BAPTISMS AND MARRIAGES. Researching :- Ray/Reay/Perkins/Davis/Asbury/Morris/Dugmore-Birmingham. Hitchman-Oxford, Birmingham. Markland Morris/Jackson-Isle of Wight. Smith/Warden/West/Bilson/Milner/Dower/Johnson/Ludford/Sidwell/and more-Coventry. Census information is Crown Co |
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Keith Bateman
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"Ahmed" has got a lot to answer for!! 
Mine has started to try and pretend he is actually signing - saying "nice site" can't quite understand what they get out of it - now no I have taken off a place for them to list their websites.
Just keep deleting them - they will get fed up again in a few days when they see I delete their guestbook rubbish!
Keith
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Keith Bateman
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A month with-out much - but "they" are back this week with a vengeance!!
6/7 a day for the last 3 days
Keith
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Heather DD
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Me too Keith 
Afraid I've temporarily disabled both my guest book and mail form as I was getting swamped. Instead I've asked them to find me on Rootschat until I can cope with it. Also badly need to update the site but life's too busy right now.
On a brighter note I had an amazing contact via mailform a couple of weeks ago which has pushed me through one particular brick wall, so it's not all bad!
Heather
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Nottinghamshire: Willmott, Williams, Oldham, Padgett, Burden, Stokes, Huskinson, Tuckwood, Morley, Barnett Lincolnshire: Foster, Dennis, Mowbray Leicestershire: Mowbray,Hudson, Tuckwood Derbyshire: Starbrook Somerset: Willmott, Elliott Cork:Driscoll, Murphy London Surrey:Driscoll, Cheesman London Kent:Cheesman Kent:Cheesman, Davis, West, Hills, Kneller, Bones, Eastup Census information is crown copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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julianb
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I've suffered too. But I've implemented a workaround with my ardguest guestbook - PM me if you want to know what it is. It worked a few months ago, and it looks like it is working again now.
JULIAN
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Essex - Carter, Danns, Mason, Middleditch, Pond, Poole, Rose, Sorrill, Surry, Theobold Kent - Luetchford Nottinghamshire - Baker, Dunks, Woodward, Price, Priestley Suffolk - Rose Surrey - Baker, Bedel, Bransden, Carter, Coleman, Gibbs, Luetchford, Quinton Sussex - Gibbs, Langridge Wiltshire - Brice, Rumble http://genbires.blogspot.com/http://genbires-networking.blogspot.com/Any census info in this post is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Paul E
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Not quite sure what annoys me most - deleting all the Guest Book Spam or deleting GenesReunited Hot Matches!
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julianb
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The spammers have worn me down, and I have abandoned my ardguest guest book and set up a new one as used and recommended by Dinie http://www.smartgb.com/?p=newbottomlink3. This guestbook has a spam filter.
What's more the new one isn't on the free rootschat webspace, so the spammers aren't using my precious bandwidth when they attempt (I hope unsuccesfully) to spam in my space. 
This all came about because I was unable to change the folder name for my guestbook - see http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,218644.0.html.
I (and others off whom I had pinched the idea) had used the ploy of changing the folder name of, and resetting the links to, the guestbook, and it would take a month or two for the spammers to catch up with the new location. Unfortunately it seems impossible now to change the folder name of the guestbook through the RootsChat webspace file manager.
I was getting 10 or more messages in the guestbook a day - mostly to do with certain drugs which claim to improve the sexual potency of ageing men (well they got that one right, didn't they  ) and also about other things which I could only hazard a guess about (but I had my suspicions  ).
I have saved off the old guest book, and transcribed the entries onto a page on my site. There were almost 40 (legitimate or apparently legitimate) entries which wasn't particularly arduous, and I don't know why I hadn't done it before, as it only took me about a couple of hours all told - the equivalent of about two to three weeks worth of deleting spam on the old guestbook. And I can now consider going on holiday now without worrying about all the spam accumulating. 
So fingers crossed that Dinie's recommendation works.
JULIAN
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Essex - Carter, Danns, Mason, Middleditch, Pond, Poole, Rose, Sorrill, Surry, Theobold Kent - Luetchford Nottinghamshire - Baker, Dunks, Woodward, Price, Priestley Suffolk - Rose Surrey - Baker, Bedel, Bransden, Carter, Coleman, Gibbs, Luetchford, Quinton Sussex - Gibbs, Langridge Wiltshire - Brice, Rumble http://genbires.blogspot.com/http://genbires-networking.blogspot.com/Any census info in this post is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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