spam on Open Clip Art Library

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spam on Open Clip Art Library

Postby brynn » Fri Feb 12, 2010 8:24 am

Hi Friends,
I was just visiting openclipart.org, searching for some images. There I found copious amounts of spam!

When I tried to use the Contact forum, to report it, I found that the 5 little images that make up the Security Key (I guess it's sort of like a captcha) show only the dreaded red X -- 5 red X's. I tried following the image Properties to the actual URL, but found only a blank page. Even when I tried to View Source, there is nothing between the Body tags (...<BODY></BODY>...).

So I'm stumped. (It may be something about my security setup on Windows XP Home sp3, IE8, but I can't figure out what setting might be the culprit.) I looked around for quite a while, hoping to find an actual email address somewhere, but no such luck :(

So I'm hoping to attract someone in the admin role, or someone who knows someone, by posting about it here. My questions are:
-- Do you want spam such as on this page reported? (http://openclipart.org/media/tags/bird) The entries about Clomid are links to online pharmacies -- no images.
-- If so, how can I report it, given the problem with the Contact form?

Thanks for your help :D

Guest

Re: spam on Open Clip Art Library

Postby Guest » Sat Feb 13, 2010 9:53 am

Hi, I think the officila place wiuld be to email: clipart at lists dot freedesktop dot org. The system has some problems at the moment, i think OCAL is in a slight limbo at the moment. Went and deleted the spam image's. Looks line I have a backlog of 400 unchecked images to catch up with... I will get round to it sometime.

tom

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Re: spam on Open Clip Art Library

Postby brynn » Fri Mar 12, 2010 10:34 am

Oops, don't know how I missed your reply tom. But thank you very much!


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