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 <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 in the e-Mail they get... great news, we'll hit one > million users rather quickly now ;-) > > Glad they haven't started user diaries yet ;-) > > 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? > > Bye > Frederik > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev > -- Please encrypt your mail: http://mathphys.fsk.uni-heidelberg.de/~stefan/publickey.asc FP: 2620 E737 FD50 60AB 86B6 1B9D 3BFD AFFB 5B15 6893 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
