[JDEV] Jabber and spam?

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Trust metrics would be cool.

Also note that the latest XMPP specs contain a flexible blocking
protocol. All XMPP-compliant servers will need to implement this, 
so we should see adoption before long. Go here for info:

http://www.jabber.org/ietf/

The information you want is in XMPP IM, Section 8.

Peter

On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 09:58:51AM -0400, Julian Missig wrote:
> 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