Limiter for simple facebook style wall?

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fleawhale
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Limiter for simple facebook style wall?

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I'm trying to create a very simple facebook style wall, so simple I want to avoid any kind of username password system altogether. recaptcha style text inputing to ensure the sender is human is also impractical, as the text shall be submited from within a fullscreen flash app.

Is it possible to put a very simple limiter, so that, for example, a user from any given IP address can only submit up to three wall posts within a 24 hour period? Or would this cause problems due to all the users without unique IP addresses? I know something like this is possible because of the royalmail website, which allows up to 15 postcode searches per day with no username/password system:
http://postcode.royalmail.com/portal/rm ... r=postcode

Any help/ideas much appreciated!
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jaoudestudios
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Re: Limiter for simple facebook style wall?

Post by jaoudestudios »

The problem with doing it by IP is a company would share the same IP. Therefore if 4 people from that company/office wanted to post only the first 3 would be able too. May be do it on email instead, still no password but they must enter a valid email each time.
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