On 13/02/2013, at 5:26 PM, Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2/13/13 10:07 AM, David Banes wrote: >> Standard advice to customer in the email world is to block >> countries that you don't do business with. Seems a bit extreme bit >> if you have lot's of registrations from lets say Iran and you don't >> have any users/customer there and don't want any the just block >> that country. > > So you prevent entire IP blocks from accessing your service in any way > (e.g., even to register accounts)? > Yes that's correct. It's not nice and not really in the spirit of a free and open internet, but if that's what it takes to provide a good users experience for 99% of users then it's effective as long as your firewall holds up :) > Another approach is to shut down all new-account registration. We've > done that at jabber.org for short periods of time, and I am > considering doing it again. At that point, i you want to connect to > the open IM network, the answer is: run your own server (whether at a > company, club, family, church, school, open-source project, or whatever). > > That's consistent with http://freeyourspeech.org/ Agree. > > Peter > > - -- > Peter Saint-Andre > https://stpeter.im/ > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.18 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRG8zAAAoJEOoGpJErxa2pwmkP/3Q1WiSKKOActJPTQ1dlyZub > tmbbfhALQtieGEVJkSlj4Is6JEYL1XWwAq+rudfwu61MHmyn70WUhtRh01Gw9gvl > OpunU59lMyVzKw5kyQz6O3cNOco5gvI5FLjYFdGeKFUp3oYgYdwkIH3EKhh69ers > isqJv3fuzEi27igwIJDXFvmmGTJVqy4gtqchiDDvOvZREFpqiUZIdsETMfsP2Mz+ > /cu6xEBm/jZ62IAWDoWnvix/M7UM+9rNRJw+jPG6b7kCG8tQ82RAKX0lH7/8C/hl > 5dqFEM6W/uGNAec7JZ/AsTLlwSKAIOguWL+3Vh0NlC4GoyjF5p41yIhVMkuoaY9R > GyTDSAqBAA9ncfClr2gbNEuyoBykN68RicLcHGB4qpW6YKk0kv96Zj9IVg6N26Eu > mA5zwDMWJbCWs5b1/jN4SRnCt385Oppm8WWBTwyUUBGDsiNq3fQuRxi7eaW5D7FD > ScU1KHxAezIpv7za/wr5EXNkH6tP5Sf6h5avcQsVspD2k4na6c1S+bdZCQ4xhtkn > lpL31EKdQpYWk7vc8DKIz7wZZPm8b7d9Rd0loux5eMqtoJygjrzqHasaLkIOoicR > FYPtLG93MVEGiBdo9NNeWIW6nxpILER1EkmJr1DILIKf8qLNWpj92puntXIFY4BN > APNGxIZ5RkeiSfTEzLux > =d55t > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
