[OSM-dev] openstreetmap.org as target for spamming?

Tom Hughes tom at compton.nu
Thu Apr 9 08:41:20 BST 2009


Tom Hughes wrote:

>> 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?
> 
> All the ones I have seen so far appear to be manually done so I don't 
> think a Captcha will help.

OK. In this case it does look like they were automated (there are at 
least 300 or so that I have killed) so a captcha might help.

Tom

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