Re: [OSM-dev] openstreetmap.org as target for spamming?

2009-04-09 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Stefan Keller wrote: Usually we try to ignore spam, but now it seems, that openstreetmap.org has become some spam target (see below). Uh-huh. Good you noticed that. This means they actually have gone through the trouble of writing a script that creates OSM accounts AND confirms the link

Re: [OSM-dev] openstreetmap.org as target for spamming?

2009-04-09 Thread Stefan Breunig
Don't add a captcha. They get cracked anyway and just make it harder for everyone. Adding a bayesian filter should be sufficient after a little training (it works for josm.openstreetmap.de) and requires no extra effort from the user. Greetings xeen On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 08:29, Frederik Ramm

Re: [OSM-dev] openstreetmap.org as target for spamming?

2009-04-09 Thread Graham Jones (Physics)
I am intrigued - what does the bayesian filter try to do? bayesian statistics has always been too hard for me to get my head around - Can you point me to a decent explanation please? Graham. 2009/4/9 Stefan Breunig ste...@mathphys.fsk.uni-heidelberg.de Don't add a captcha. They get cracked

Re: [OSM-dev] openstreetmap.org as target for spamming?

2009-04-09 Thread Tom Hughes
Frederik Ramm wrote: Glad they haven't started user diaries yet ;-) People started doing that a long time ago. I kill them when people report them. Maye someone with Rails skills could quickly grab an existing captcha solution and add it to

Re: [OSM-dev] openstreetmap.org as target for spamming?

2009-04-09 Thread Tom Hughes
Stefan Breunig wrote: Don't add a captcha. They get cracked anyway and just make it harder for everyone. Adding a bayesian filter should be sufficient after a little training (it works for josm.openstreetmap.de) and requires no extra effort from the user. It doesn't stop the accounts being

Re: [OSM-dev] openstreetmap.org as target for spamming?

2009-04-09 Thread Łukasz Jernaś
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: Tom Hughes wrote: Maye someone with Rails skills could quickly grab an existing captcha solution and add it to http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/sites/rails_port/app/controllers/user_controller.rb? All the ones I have

Re: [OSM-dev] openstreetmap.org as target for spamming?

2009-04-09 Thread Stefan de Konink
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Tom Hughes wrote: Frederik Ramm wrote: Glad they haven't started user diaries yet ;-) People started doing that a long time ago. I kill them when people report them. I have some cloudmade people always spamming me about mapping parties in the states, now I am not from

Re: [OSM-dev] openstreetmap.org as target for spamming?

2009-04-09 Thread Łukasz Jernaś
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Łukasz Jernaś deej...@srem.org wrote: Maybe http://recaptcha.net/plugins/mediawiki/ could help? Argh, wrong link I meant http://github.com/ambethia/recaptcha/tree/master -- Łukasz ___ dev mailing list

Re: [OSM-dev] openstreetmap.org as target for spamming?

2009-04-09 Thread Tom Hughes
Stefan de Konink wrote: On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Tom Hughes wrote: Frederik Ramm wrote: Glad they haven't started user diaries yet ;-) People started doing that a long time ago. I kill them when people report them. I have some cloudmade people always spamming me about mapping parties in the

Re: [OSM-dev] openstreetmap.org as target for spamming?

2009-04-09 Thread Tom Hughes
Łukasz Jernaś wrote: On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Łukasz Jernaś deej...@srem.org wrote: Maybe http://recaptcha.net/plugins/mediawiki/ could help? Argh, wrong link I meant http://github.com/ambethia/recaptcha/tree/master Oh I'm sure that are approximately 30 bazillion captcha plugins for

Re: [OSM-dev] openstreetmap.org as target for spamming?

2009-04-09 Thread Łukasz Jernaś
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: Łukasz Jernaś wrote: Argh, wrong link I meant http://github.com/ambethia/recaptcha/tree/master Oh I'm sure that are approximately 30 bazillion captcha plugins for rails - somebody just needs to sit down and find a good one...

Re: [OSM-dev] openstreetmap.org as target for spamming?

2009-04-09 Thread Stefan Keller
I'm using recaptcha in my Mediawiki installation too. Can recommend it. -S. 2009/4/9 Łukasz Jernaś deej...@srem.org On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: Tom Hughes wrote: Maye someone with Rails skills could quickly grab an existing captcha solution and add

Re: [OSM-dev] openstreetmap.org as target for spamming?

2009-04-09 Thread D Tucny
2009/4/9 Stefan Keller sfkel...@gmail.com I'm using recaptcha in my Mediawiki installation too. Can recommend it. -S. 2009/4/9 Łukasz Jernaś deej...@srem.org On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: Tom Hughes wrote: Maye someone with Rails skills could

Re: [OSM-dev] openstreetmap.org as target for spamming?

2009-04-09 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Floris Looijesteijn wrote: That's actually not such a bad idea for a captcha! 'please click on United States on this map:' And then do it like the recaptcha people and actually collect the user input and use it to improve the map ;-) Bye Frederik

[OSM-dev] openstreetmap.org as target for spamming?

2009-04-08 Thread Stefan Keller
Dear maintainers of OSM, Usually we try to ignore spam, but now it seems, that openstreetmap.org has become some spam target (see below). Yours, Stefan - From: steeptso...@ua-news.net steeptso...@ua-news.net Date: 9. April 2009 01:58:10 GMT+02:00 To: AAA (a...@hsr.ch) a...@hsr.ch