Astro-viz folks,

It appears the spammers have figured out how to by-pass the
"captchas" - those wiggly images of text that you must type in
to create an account. I'm seeing more spam from seemingly
legit account names, and we got a couple of messages here.

Would anyone be upset if I changed membeship rules to
"moderator approved"? That means any new members must
get my approval first.

If spam accounts become a problem, I think I'll have to do
this. Not planning to do this immediately, but wanted to warn
folks first.


Frank

Astrophysicist
Office of Public Outreach

Space Telescope Science Institute 410-338-4749
3700 San Martin Dr 410-338-4579 (fax)
Baltimore, MD 21218 summers@...
http://terpsichore.stsci.edu/~summers/