[OSM-talk] Why am I getting spam via OSM website messages?

2014-07-31 Thread Dave F.
Hi This arrived a minute ago from user SDuser92130: Dear OSM contributor, If you are at least 18 years of age and you speak English, you are invited to take part in a brief research study pursued by faculty at a major university in the U.S. This will involve an audio interview over Skype

Re: [OSM-talk] Why am I getting spam via OSM website messages?

2014-07-31 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: Thank you in advance for your potential participation. Did they obtain the email database or are the messages being sent out one at a time to individual users? using the email osm user functionality which can be found here

Re: [OSM-talk] Why am I getting spam via OSM website messages?

2014-07-31 Thread Tom Hughes
On 31/07/14 12:20, Dave F. wrote: This arrived a minute ago from user SDuser92130: Dear OSM contributor, If you are at least 18 years of age and you speak English, you are invited to take part in a brief research study pursued by faculty at a major university in the U.S. This will involve an

Re: [OSM-talk] Why am I getting spam via OSM website messages?

2014-07-31 Thread Pieren
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Simone Cortesi sim...@cortesi.com wrote: your email address has not been disclosed. We received the same report in our local list in France. Is this message a spam or a real study ? Pieren ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Why am I getting spam via OSM website messages?

2014-07-31 Thread Dave F.
As it's nothing to do with OSM (with him being interested in human behavior - cognitive and social psychology the subject could just a well have been about chocolate biscuits), it's definitely spam. Dave F. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection

Re: [OSM-talk] Why am I getting spam via OSM website messages?

2014-07-31 Thread Tom Hughes
On 31/07/14 12:44, Dave F. wrote: As it's nothing to do with OSM (with him being interested in human behavior - cognitive and social psychology the subject could just a well have been about chocolate biscuits), it's definitely spam. As far as I know (and some of the messages are clearer that

Re: [OSM-talk] Why am I getting spam via OSM website messages?

2014-07-31 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2014-07-31 13:36 GMT+02:00 Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com: Yes, I'm aware of that but how did they obtain our usernames? I'm presuming he didn't type in random names hoping to strike lucky. looking at the data? You can see for every (non-anonymous) user everything he has ever done in OSM and

Re: [OSM-talk] Why am I getting spam via OSM website messages?

2014-07-31 Thread Aaron Lidman
I was interested as well and was interviewed as part of the study yesterday. It's exactly what it says. The questions were mostly focused on the community aspect of OSM; who makes up OSM, how often you edit, personal reasons for editing, questions about in-person events, how motivations differ