[Tilesathome] Distributed server idea

[Russell Phillips]

On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 18:05 +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote:

> If we can employ such types of spam protection, that's fine with me.  
> I hope you see the difference. I want to assume that every user is  
> well-meaning and only do something if they aren't, instead of  
> subjecting every well-meaning user to anti-spam procedures. Wikipedia  
> does this quite well it seems.

I don't really know much about Wikipedia, and I don't know what measures
they have in place. I do know that some time back, they changed things
to allow only registered users to create new articles. I have noticed
that if I add a URL to the OSM wiki, there is a captcha before the edit
is accepted.

And I do see the difference. Unfortunately, I don't have any great ideas
of how to prevent spam :-( I just wanted to bring it up, so that it can
be considered.

> GPG signing will not prevent the uploading of spam, it will only make  
> sure that you can eliminate the account responsible *after* the  
> damage has been done. Obviously you hope that spammers will not go  
> through the effort of asking for accounts in the first place.

It may be that the way to stop spammers is to find some way of stopping
automated registrations.

Russ