On 3 Sep 2009, at 21:18, SteveC wrote: > > On 3 Sep 2009, at 07:04, Richard Fairhurst wrote: >> Peter Miller wrote: >> > Ok, so I have just had an RSS alert that Liam123 is back editing >>> again today after a delay of 3 weeks. >> >> Probably because kids are back at school now. >> >> Look at his first changeset ever - it's next to his school. Of >> course, it >> would be an interesting experiment to e-mail the headteacher and let >> him >> know that his computer equipment is probably being used to vandalise >> an >> international collaborative project. > > Y'know I abused school computer equipment for most of my time in > schools and universities, far better if someone can figure out how to > help the kid out to the light side of The Force than to stamp on a > little bit of creativity. > Liam123 is doing us a huge favour and I hope he continues to do what he has been doing for some time to come. We does some, but not too much damage every now and again and then gives us some time to improve our response. He has not done so much damage that it gets us negative publicity, but he is doing enough to force us to build an effective response which is just what we need at this point, and it is much better for us to be tested by some innocent graffiti and than anything more malicious. I am sure that in time he will become a more conventionally useful and upstanding member of society (as has our illustrious chairman;) ) however for now I suggest we allow him to carry on with his games while we get set up so we can respond in minutes to new interventions from him and others also also get some good tools to dig out all the previous mischief that he has left for us in the database (such as the B1008 which I spotted earlier today which he 'adjusted' back in June).
When we come to transfer to the new license we will of course need to be able to remove his and other contributions if we are not able to get an agreement to transfer to the new license, which might actually be another use for the same tools. Regards, Peter > Yours &c. > > Steve > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
