On 13/02/2013, at 6:24 PM, Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2/13/13 10:29 AM, David Banes wrote: >> >> On 13/02/2013, at 5:26 PM, Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> 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. > > I am doing some analysis of users at jabber.org. We have a *lot* of > these spammer accounts. We will disable all of them ASAP. Whether we > continue to allow new user registration is another issue. I am > starting to lean against it quite strongly. Is there any way you can deploy a [social] referral system for registration. I recall you talking about a PGP style web of trust. Maybe that's the way to go, new registrations need an existing user with high trust to confirm their registration. Maybe this is just a buddy invite from someone already on the domain that when it's accepted [from the off domain buddy] the account is confirmed? David http://zerp.ly/dbanes xmpp: [email protected] Mobile: +44 (0)782 5138 214
