Flickr ActsTo Can Spam

Another page selling pirated AutoCAD showed up on Flickr yesterday. It places "photographs" that are ads linking to the pirate site. After alerting Flickr to the problem, I received this response from them mere minutes later:

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. We see this sort of activity when naughty spammers run a dictionary attack against our upload by email addresses.

The member in question is not a spammer. We'll clean out the account and reset the upload by email password.

Comments

[Deelip Menezes]

Excellent! Can't say the same about Orkut though. They are yet to act on my alert.