[JDEV] Jabber and spam?

[Mattias Campe]

Sebastiaan Deckers wrote:
[...]
> 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?

Server admins that don't want scripts to automatically make accounts 
might take an approach that I've seen on some boards: before you are 
officially registered, you have to describe what you *see* on a program 
generated picture, eg. A12K at 3!56.

I don't know if this would require a new JEP? Or is there room in the 
current registration model to provide such a service?


Of course, as not every server admin would use this, it would still be 
"heaven" for spammers, but then, there wouldn't be so many domainnames 
so they would be more easy to reject.


just my 2 cents,
Mattias