[jdev] How to automaticallly accept presence subscription requests?

[Dave Cridland]

On Mon Sep 29 15:23:20 2008, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote:
> However, google talk, in their incredible desire to battle spam, do  
> not
> deliver messages unless contacts are mutually subscribed, so for  
> gtalk
> users, you need to subscribe to them as well. (And do not ask me how
> this helps eliminate unwanted messages.)

Oh, it certainly makes spam much harder to send via messages.

Of course, it also means any spammers will use subscription-requests  
as a spam vector, which is considerably more irritating, since it  
requires a positive action to get rid of.

Dave.
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