[JDEV] Jabber and spam?

[Neil Stevens]

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On Saturday June 21, 2003 05:58, Sebastiaan Deckers wrote:
> Spam protection is not something you would want in clients, long term.

That's a contraversial statement.  Why should users risk losing important 
messages becuase of an over-zealous anti-spam admin?

> Most of the spam I receive these days comes from popular transports.
> That means as XMPP grows, the spammers will come.
> It is good to have basic systems already in place, which allow total
> blocking of messages.  And a more elaborate filter system at the server
> level is (relatively) trivial to implement.
>
> Someone in this thread mentioned that S2S dialback will effectively stop
> spammers because they would need to identify.  But why should they use a
> single S2S connection when they can just launch 500 connections to a
> random server with open registration (eg. jabber.org) and start spamming
> at [karma x 500] messages per second?

Your two paragraphs answer each other.  Once XMPP is popular, open 
registration demo servers can and will have to be discontinued.

- -- 
Neil Stevens - neil at qualityassistant.com
"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the
sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him
for the same act as the destroyer of liberty." -- Abraham Lincoln
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