Joshua's article describes how to use a text file and the FileSystemObject to store the various guestbook entries. At that time, Matt's Script Archive had the best free guestbook out there, and it ran fine on my university's Unix system. However, after graduating, I didn't have any easy access to a Unix server, and since I was learning ASP, I had NT server space out the wazzo.
Lets take a look at it.
You can include whatever field you like. For this example I used Name, Email, City, State, Zip, Country, Web Page, and Comment. This is a standard html page that displays a form that the user can use to fill in information. You can choose whatever fields you want, you can add javascript verification to make sure certain fields are not left blank, or apply any other client-side form field validation you'd like. This sends the information the user enters to our next file, submit.asp .