Yes, in fact the same spammers seem to now be registering lots of users, and spamming with them. I'm hoping that there will be a way to reverse the spam 'automagically' since they are inserting the same string into all of the records.
kc On 11/24/12 9:57 AM, Alan Millar wrote: > There's been a lot of spam for a long time. This is a good change. > > Unfortunately there are also OpenLibrary spammers who register, so this > won't eliminate the spam, just reduce it. > > - Alan > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Karen Coyle <[email protected]> > *To:* Open Library -- general discussion <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Saturday, November 24, 2012 7:14 AM > *Subject:* Re: [ol-discuss] Anonymous edits disabled > > There was a big bunch of recent spam. - kc > > On 11/24/12 7:04 AM, Roger Loran Bailey wrote: > > Why? > > On 11/23/2012 11:30 PM, Anand Chitipothu wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> We've disabled anonymous edits on Open Library. Now only logged > in users can edit or add records to Open Library. > >> > >> Anand > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] > -- Karen Coyle [email protected] http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
