[OSM-dev] drop in users

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason avarab at gmail.com
Sun May 9 12:46:58 BST 2010


On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 23:42, Gregory <nomoregrapes at googlemail.com> wrote:
> As such, I think it might be nice if a geodata blog post was made or a
> message sent to the talk list. Simply saying a system has been rolled in
> that detects and suspends accounts for checking should suffice, without
> giving away spam-secret formulas.

There's no secret sauce; The source code is all in Git. Good spam
systems don't suffer from their internals being known.

Besides, I don't think that those spamming OpenStreetMap blogs are
proficient enough to read the code and come up with a targeted attack
even if that were the case.




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