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
>
>
>
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