Re: [OSM-talk] view blocks received?

2009-10-10 Thread Nop
Hi! Lars Francke schrieb: I'm sure someone else will be able to better answer this question but it seems as if moderators and administrators are able to block certain users from using the API. Actually, could someone explain how this is supposed to protect against vandalism? It appears

Re: [OSM-talk] view blocks received?

2009-10-10 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 7 Oct 2009, at 11:06, Lars Francke wrote: I'm sure someone else will be able to better answer this question but it seems as if moderators and administrators are able to block certain users from using the API. Additionaly it seems as if there are now different roles for users: administrators

Re: [OSM-talk] view blocks received?

2009-10-10 Thread MP
Actually, could someone explain how this is supposed to protect against vandalism? It appears that if an account is blocked, a vandal can simply create any number of alternate accounts and continue his work - probably much faster than anybody can hand out blocks. Won't help much against

Re: [OSM-talk] view blocks received?

2009-10-10 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Nop wrote: Actually, could someone explain how this is supposed to protect against vandalism? It appears that if an account is blocked, a vandal can simply create any number of alternate accounts and continue his work - probably much faster than anybody can hand out blocks. Yes,

Re: [OSM-talk] view blocks received?

2009-10-10 Thread Liz
On Sat, 10 Oct 2009, Shaun McDonald wrote: Actually it was already announced: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/announce/2009-October/01.html Shaun so if something didn't go wrong everytime i tried to sign up to the new list i could have read that?

Re: [OSM-talk] view blocks received?

2009-10-10 Thread Matt Amos
On 10/10/09, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: On 10/10/09, Shaun McDonald sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk wrote: On 7 Oct 2009, at 11:06, Lars Francke wrote: I'm waiting for the announcement on the new mailing list :) Actually it was already announced:

Re: [OSM-talk] view blocks received?

2009-10-10 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/10/11 Matt Amos zerebub...@gmail.com: maybe every announce mail could be automatically copied to talk as well? although that might be a bit annoying to those subscribed to both... I''m no expert but I think when the mail clients see both lists in CC they will only show one copy because

[OSM-talk] view blocks received?

2009-10-07 Thread maning sambale
What does it mean by blocks found in the user page in OSm mainsite? -- cheers, maning -- Freedom is still the most radical idea of all -N.Branden wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/

Re: [OSM-talk] view blocks received?

2009-10-07 Thread Liz
On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, maning sambale wrote: What does it mean by blocks found in the user page in OSm mainsite? I just saw that so far I have none Is this where FakeLiam123 will be prevented from editing? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] view blocks received?

2009-10-07 Thread Lars Francke
I'm sure someone else will be able to better answer this question but it seems as if moderators and administrators are able to block certain users from using the API. Additionaly it seems as if there are now different roles for users: administrators and moderators. I would have thought that only