[JDEV] Jabber and spam?

[Julian Missig]

Why are we limited to only these solutions? Since the system is 
(somewhat) extensible, we have more options available to us than even 
those for email. For years now I've wanted to play around with 
implementing some form of trust metric 
(http://www.advogato.org/trust-metric.html) in Jabber. I think that 
with Jabber we can get away with a brand new solution to the spam 
problem which does not feel "tacked on" like all the ones you list.

Julian

On Saturday, Jun 21, 2003, at 07:08 US/Eastern, Bart van Bragt wrote:

> I was adjusting my email spam filters, again, and that started me 
> wondering about Jabber and spam.
>
> IMO there are not many provisions to prevent spam from being 
> sent/received in the jabber protocol. The only thing you can do is:
> - block everything from anyone not in your roster except auth requests
> - blacklist specific servers (very temporary solution)
> - Filter on certain words/patterns (brrrrr, no a very clean solution)
>
> I don't know of any clients/servers that implement the first 
> 'solution'. Has this been though about? Any idea how spam can be 
> prevented or at least reduced?
>
> -- 
> BartVB
>
>
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