Is it a good idea to disallow registrations of users and force the use of a webpage form that has a human verification method (reCaptha)???? Thus bot registrations would have to pass the human verification method of a webpage.
It seems like the in-band registration capabilities of XMPP are going to be targeted by bots heavily and there are no strong methods intergrated into major xmpp servers nor clients that stop this issue. I do know ejabberd is working on suppressing SPAM via Group chats using XEP-0158 *CAPTCHA* Forms <http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0158.html#muc> Although untill jabber clients support XEP-0158 for in-band user registration I suggest all operators with public servers move to registration via html form with human verification. -Chris On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Clemens Fries <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > I, too, got a few of these registrations. I did a quick search for some of > the > names on the list and discovered that all the surnames used in the > nicknames > seem to originate from this list: > > http://cns2.uni.edu/~okane/114/Physicians.txt<http://cns2.uni.edu/%7Eokane/114/Physicians.txt> > > It may be interesting to hear of anyone got a nickname with a surname that > is > not on that list. I got only positive matches for the names you provided > and > for the seven names I had at hand. > > Might help to single out the 'bad' users. The first names seem to come from > a > different list ─ there are multiple results if you google for some of the > more > exotic names. > > On Friday 27 March 2009 15:05:28 Michael Grigutsch wrote: > > Hi! > > > > It seems as if the registration bots have been improved to use more > > ordinary nicknames for the registration. I have some strange registration > > the last days, always using $name_$name as nick, e.g. suzanna_taggart, > > evangeline_coldsmith, kendal_emrick... > > > > The accounts are not be used further after registration, some of them > were > > automatically deleted during daily maintenance as the user never logs in. > > > > Anyone else noticed that registrations? > > > > Best regards > > > > /MiGri > > >
