[OSM-talk] Re: privacy policy

[Tommy Persson]

OJW <streetmap at blibbleblobble.co.uk> writes:

> On Thursday 27 July 2006 19:42, Tommy Persson wrote:
> > Why is it interesting for spammers to add map data?
> 
> Because they can.  Have you seen some of the other things spammers have 
> destroyed for no reason?

OK, I do not call destroying thing spamming.  I thought that spamming
had to have some other purpose than destruction.

> Or to put it another way, what good is an online map application that can't 
> defend itself against a competitor who controls 15,000 Windows computers in 
> various networks?

Well the schema proposed now cannot defend against that.  So if the
purpose is to defend against that you have to start with enhancing the
current system.

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/Tommy Persson