On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Badlop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:01 PM, Matthew Wild <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've had a couple of registrations on my (private) server also. >> Private in so much as, it's not listed on any list of public servers. >> They must be harvesting from somewhere. > > Did you publish a JID of your Jabber server in internet indicating it > was a JID? For example: > <a href="xmpp://[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Send me a message</a> > And then a web crawler would search for "jabber:" and "xmpp:", and add > the servers to the list of potential hosts of spamjids. >
I doubt this is the case. It takes quite a bit to run a web crawler, and one looking for XMPP servers would have a very low success rate per page. > Another way to learn your servername would be to login in a populated > non-anonymous chatroom and get JIDs of participants, then add their > servers to the list. But at least JDEV is anonymous, right? > This is more likely. Even more likely is from one of the various lists auto-generated based on s2s logs and other spidering. Example: http://jabberstats.org/servers Matthew.
