Feature Requests item #962497, was opened at 2004-05-28 18:52 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by lschiere You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350235&aid=962497&group_id=235
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: None Group: None >Status: Closed Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Sean Brown (sblinux) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Handling Flooding Initial Comment: Gaim deals with this well compared to YMessenger, but eventually it gets to it. I'm talking about the various booters lurking around Yahoo in particular, using a script to send requests to join a conference, add to your buddy list or just as many IM's as their system can in order to boot you off the service, its really annoying. Handling the IM flood might be a problem, some people just send short, quick messages in rapid succession, so it would have to be somewhat adaptive or intelligent to know what's a legitimate message, and what's a flood, though no one sends messages that fast. As far as the invitations go, there's no need to have more then one valid from each user at a time. I believe Gaim should accept one, then discard all others from that user until that one has been dealt with, and then wait a period of time, say 30s or a minute before accepting the same invite from them again. Yahoo seems unwilling to deal with this problem on their own network, so we have to look to a better client. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Luke Schierer (lschiere) Date: 2007-04-17 15:40 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=28833 Originator: NO As we are closing this tracker, please submit any feature request that is still valid to http://developer.pidgin.im. Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: carbonize (carbonize) Date: 2004-05-29 05:52 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1050484 The IM flood is easy to stop by setting Yahoo's privacy to friends only. Unfortunately this will not stop the booting. The boot works by flooding your connection with packets, usually just conference invites or declines, which eats up your connection to Yahoo. Yahoo must monitor the amount of traffic to/from a connection and closes the connection if it gets to great. This is a serverside boot and not a clientside boot and can only be fixed by Yahoo themselves. So basically it is irrelevant if the client informs you of the PM's, Invites, Declines etc as they are still being sent and will result in your connection being closed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350235&aid=962497&group_id=235 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Gaim-features mailing list Gaim-features@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gaim-features
