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<p>Am 01.07.2017 um 12:48 schrieb Walter Nordmann:<br>
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<p>hi simon,<br>
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I've already touched on this with the sys admins and saved refs
to the ones that I fixed. However it is unlikely that we will do
any thing with the information as the accounts are extremely
unlikely to be reused, and on the other hand, given that <b>we
have a known US based SEO company that has created (literally)
1000s of such accounts</b> (but with slightly less spammy
edits), and "we" haven't taken any action, why should we in this
case?<br>
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what's about a captcha to disable automatic registration? and a
confirmation mail, which is asking a variable question too?<br>
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n the case I was referring too, see
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SimonPoole/diary/40246">http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SimonPoole/diary/40246</a> , we are
fairly sure that it is a sweatshop that is/was adding them. Outside
of causing issues for legitimate users, adding a captcha is likely
not to achieve anything<br>
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Simon<br>
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cite="mid:9174d85f-d08f-4088-7f0d-48606a26311f@gmx.de"> Regards<br>
walter aka wambacher<br>
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