[JDEV] Jabber and spam?

Mattias Campe mattias.campe at rug.ac.be
Tue Jun 24 03:58:14 CDT 2003


David 'TheRaven' Chisnall wrote:
[...]
> This would prevent people from easily sending a large number of spam 
> Jabber messages, although it would have a couple of  limitations:
> Blind people obviously can not see an image, and so could not recognise 
> it.  An alternative, such as a wave sound of someone saying a word / 
> phrase or number could be used in place.  This then leaves us with the 
> problem of blind and deaf people, who, presumably are using some kind of 
> braille terminal.  It would be very difficult to create something which 
> can be recognised by someone using a braille terminal but not a computer.
> Low bandwidth devices and terminal based clients may also be unable to 
> respond to this kind of identification.

[..]

Indeed, I didn't thought of this disadvantages :(...

Regards,
Mattias




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