Trust metrics would be cool. Also note that the latest XMPP specs contain a flexible blocking protocol. All XMPP-compliant servers will need to implement this, so we should see adoption before long. Go here for info:
http://www.jabber.org/ietf/ The information you want is in XMPP IM, Section 8. Peter On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 09:58:51AM -0400, Julian Missig wrote: > Why are we limited to only these solutions? Since the system is > (somewhat) extensible, we have more options available to us than even > those for email. For years now I've wanted to play around with > implementing some form of trust metric > (http://www.advogato.org/trust-metric.html) in Jabber. I think that > with Jabber we can get away with a brand new solution to the spam > problem which does not feel "tacked on" like all the ones you list. > > Julian > > On Saturday, Jun 21, 2003, at 07:08 US/Eastern, Bart van Bragt wrote: > > >I was adjusting my email spam filters, again, and that started me > >wondering about Jabber and spam. > > > >IMO there are not many provisions to prevent spam from being > >sent/received in the jabber protocol. The only thing you can do is: > >- block everything from anyone not in your roster except auth requests > >- blacklist specific servers (very temporary solution) > >- Filter on certain words/patterns (brrrrr, no a very clean solution) > > > >I don't know of any clients/servers that implement the first > >'solution'. Has this been though about? Any idea how spam can be > >prevented or at least reduced? > > > >-- > >BartVB _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
