> A Geo-IP type lookup when the page is displayed shouldn't be 
> too hard to put in.
> If user is not in spamgenerator country then display editing page.
> If user is in generating country and is registered then 
> display page else display login page.


Doing a Geo-IP in the script each time I serve a page would seem to add a
lot of CPU time to the already pressed server. In IIS, I can add a list of
IP ranges that will not be served at all, and I believe it will be faster.
Perhaps I'm wrong there or the answer is to add more hardware, but I really
can't afford it right now. All the Geo-IP stuff I've seen so far depends on
a huge database or an external service. How would you implement it?

I would love to upgrade the web server again (currently a single PIII 800Mhz
with 768MB) to a rackmount system so I can move to a better colocation
facility. I see some pretty nice looking units for around a grand. E.g.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280062132674 Think it
would be worth it?

> I'd be happy to help with stuff if its wanted, and i can 
> donate some server capacity too perhaps (not bandwidth though)

Thank you very much for the offer. I'll talk to you off list about that and
other projects.

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