there's an additional issue here. how to define "spam". in my case, the customer who sends the message is the originator. He is liable for any spam complaints. However I can not filter messages away because what I see as "spam" he might not see as spam and the receiver neither. The receiver might have agreed to receive advertisement messages from the sender.
The second issue is that we are not allowed to look at the content. Privacy laws are very strict. Telecommunications are covered under privacy. You can not wiretap your customers phone line neither. The third issue is the customer pays you money to deliver the messages. So you are obliged to deliver them. Normally what we see is that operators put pretty clear rules into their contracts. If you get complaints from the receivers, you can simply hold the sender liable. In other words, "not your problem". On 19.11.2009, at 06:43, Alejandro Guerrieri wrote: > smppbox has a plugin mechanism you could hook into. That would be the most > elegant approach imho. Check the examples, there's a C plugin showing how to > do it. > > Regards, > -- > Alejandro Guerrieri > aguerri...@kannel.org > > > > On 19/11/2009, at 4:23, Sreekanth GS wrote: > >> Hello Nikos, >> >> 1. The SMPP Connection is not used by a single client, he re-distributes it >> to n levels. So the source of spam may not be from the direct client. In >> countries like ours [India], there is no spam filtration from the operator, >> and we are directly connected to the operator. So, above us, no spam >> filtration works. >> >> 2. We transmit around 1-1.5 million messages a day, in a 16 hour window, and >> hence we badly need the spam filtration mechanism, and it is not viable for >> us to reject messages assuming spam, and we can only hold, verify and then >> release to the SMSC. >> >> 3. Even if a message is caught as spam, and rejected, we need to acknowledge >> back that it was rejected due to spam. I really dont think a firewall would >> be above to send back that rejected PDU information, rather than dropping >> the packets. >> >> Regards, >> Sreekanth >> >> 2009/11/19 Nikos Balkanas <n...@amdtelecom.net> >> Hi, >> >> I will have to agree with Alvaro. Data mining, fraud, illegal and spam >> messages are a can of worms that if kannel ever gets into, there is no way >> out, with all legal ramifications. Not to mention a performance killer. Plus >> a modular front end filtering would be much more flexible and customizable. >> >> For the smppbox interface I would like to stress 2 things: >> >> 1) The average spammer or drug dealer won't use an SMPP connection to send >> their messages. Upstream ESMEs will take responsibility for filtering them. >> 2) An intelligent firewall could be used, one that would block all offensive >> packages, based on content. >> >> BR, >> Nikos >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: <sreeka...@tngicube.co.in> >> To: "Alvaro Cornejo" <cornejo.alv...@gmail.com> >> Cc: <devel@kannel.org> >> Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 2:41 AM >> >> Subject: Re: Interface to bearerbox >> >> >> Hello Alvaro, >> >> Indeed the same would suffice for kannel, but when the it comes to usage >> with smppbox, I personally don't think it is enough for that is our >> experience. >> >> Regards, >> Sreekanth >> Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Alvaro Cornejo <cornejo.alv...@gmail.com> >> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:55:44 >> To: Sreekanth GS<sreeka...@tngicube.co.in> >> Cc: <devel@kannel.org> >> Subject: Re: Interface to bearerbox >> >> Hi >> >> Kannel is a backend or a gateway for sending/receiving messages. >> Kannel is designed to handle huge amount of SMS traffic transparently >> to/from any external application, so you don΄t need to handle all kind >> of protocol issues. >> >> All you said is usually done through an external application of your >> own, with whom you can do all filtering/billing/features you >> need/want/desire. >> >> You do not need to patch / modify kannel for do what you want. Just >> with your own frontend will suffice. >> >> Regards >> >> Alvaro >> >> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Sreekanth GS <sreeka...@tngicube.co.in> >> wrote: >> Hello All, >> >> We are presently engaged in using kannel as our SMPP Client, and for the >> backend of smppbox. However, the interfacing to bearerboxes has been quite >> inadequate for us. >> >> Hence, we plan to develop a viable interface to bearerbox that will/can: >> >> 1. Accept connections from smppbox, smsbox, sqlbox etc. >> 2. Log received MSG structs to a db pool. >> 3. Select specific messages from db pool using regex. >> 4. Transmit selected messages in (3) to bearerbox. >> >> Similarly, catch MO/DLR returned by bearerbox. >> 1. Select specific messages from db MO/DLR pool using regex. >> 2. Send back the same to smppbox, smsbox, sqlbox etc. >> >> Why all this? >> >> smppbox transmits messages directly to bearerbox. >> -> There is no hold and transmit scenario. >> -> Manual approval of messages is not possible (in case of spam threats). >> -> In between prioritizing of messages is not possible. >> -> Manual modification of data is impossible, only automates is possible >> using plugins. >> -> Reject messages, hold messages (in case of queues at off-times/night) for >> a duration is impossible >> -> There is no flexible control over the messages. >> >> How to proceed: >> 1. Accept connections from other boxes. >> 2. Communicate with other boxes. >> 3. Store and retrieve data to and from db pool. >> 4. 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