-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday June 21, 2003 05:58, Sebastiaan Deckers wrote: > Spam protection is not something you would want in clients, long term.
That's a contraversial statement. Why should users risk losing important messages becuase of an over-zealous anti-spam admin? > Most of the spam I receive these days comes from popular transports. > That means as XMPP grows, the spammers will come. > It is good to have basic systems already in place, which allow total > blocking of messages. And a more elaborate filter system at the server > level is (relatively) trivial to implement. > > Someone in this thread mentioned that S2S dialback will effectively stop > spammers because they would need to identify. But why should they use a > single S2S connection when they can just launch 500 connections to a > random server with open registration (eg. jabber.org) and start spamming > at [karma x 500] messages per second? Your two paragraphs answer each other. Once XMPP is popular, open registration demo servers can and will have to be discontinued. - -- Neil Stevens - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty." -- Abraham Lincoln -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+9Flkf7mnligQOmERAiY1AJ4gqk01l3vC5GpF2vqg+Gt+eZavBwCglILo us6CCsqkMGdMOTtB6LWdBCw= =7sfC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
