[JDEV] Jabber and spam?

[Bart van Bragt]

> 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.
This would prevent scripts from creating hundreds of accounts but IMO 
it's more efficient for a spammer to just setup a temporary server in 
that case..

> 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.
Eeeh, except when spammers start using services like dyndns.org :\

BTW I really like the idea of sending some image to someone who wants to 
be added to your roster but the main disadvantage of this is that 
bots/agents/components will never be able to reply to that :\

BTW2 the Advogato idea sounds really interesting (if implemented on the 
s2s level, having clients deal with this would make things way too complex).

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Bart