Let us know if anything good comes of the block. I'm sure you'll hear otherwise.
On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 7:11 PM, Toby Murray <toby.mur...@gmail.com> wrote: > The DWG is (now) aware of it :) > > There are 8 accounts with changeset comments matching this pattern > right now. Hoping they don't change it once they start getting > blocked. > > Toby > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 9:04 PM, Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us> > wrote: > > I haven't seen anything like that in Washington State. Still getting the > > occasional "updated" changeset comment. > > > > Paul - it seems like they should be reported to DWG. The first user on > your > > list, Mike Gothie has 83 edits. One was pure garbage. If the others are > like > > that I'd report them all. > > > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 5:59 PM, Jack Armstrong dan...@sprynet.com > > <jacknst...@sprynet.com> wrote: > >> > >> Same thing is popping up in the Denver, Colorado area. I've sent > messages > >> to the new users. If no reply, I will begin deleting. > >> > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Paul Johnson > >> Sent: Mar 14, 2018 4:08 AM > >> To: Talk Openstreetmap > >> Subject: [OSM-talk] Large number of seemingly automated, non-SEO spam > >> edits > >> > >> Seem to be getting a large number of spam edits all with comments > matching > >> aabbbbbbbb, where a is any single lowercase letter and b is any single > >> digit, have appeared in the last 48 hours. So far the items being > mapped > >> have had name=* matching the same pattern, area=yes, and not much of > >> anything else, and certainly don't seem to be of any value or > decipherable > >> to any casual observer. These have started appearing in Oklahoma, > which is > >> why I noticed them in OsmCha. > >> > >> Users that I've noticed so far that are doing this, totalling 261 > >> changesets, all fitting this pattern: > >> > >> https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Mike%20Gothie > >> https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/t-max > >> https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/ghostsail > >> https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mrana3 > >> > >> I strongly suspect there are more accounts doing this across the US > (since > >> the mrana3 one only had a bounding box that intersected Oklahoma, no > edits > >> within it, but did have them on either coast), and the oldest account > >> appears to be from March 5, 2018. > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> talk mailing list > >> talk@openstreetmap.org > >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > @osm_seattle > > osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us > > OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch > > > > _______________________________________________ > > talk mailing list > > talk@openstreetmap.org > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
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