On 6/22/12 4:01 AM, Tim Schumacher wrote: > At Thu, 21 Jun 2012 21:00:45 -0700, > Ed - 0x1b, Inc. wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> It seems that many of those who run multi-user chat services have >>> experienced chatroom flooders. What best practices do people have for >>> fighting this? It seems the best we can do in real time is change the >>> room to moderated so that new flooders can't send messages, but that's >>> not a very good solution and we should be able to come up with >>> something better. I've been thinking about ways to use entity >>> reputation (XEP-0275), but other suggestions are welcome. :) >>> >>> Peter >>> >> How about tar-pitting the flooders - like OpenBSD's spamd? (and not >> the spam filter spamd) >> It has a good feature set. I like that it works out at the firewall. > > Tarpitting sounds good, the problem I can see that in heated > discussion this could also trigger. > > Another Problem I see with tarpitting is when the flooder joins with > 10 or more bots tarpitting would not be very effective.
And that's what happens. Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/
