Adding my 2c: I got an invite from [email protected] the form of a scripted bot trying to lure me to visit a link and chat with webcam.
-- - Norman Rasmussen - Email: [email protected] - Home page: http://norman.rasmussen.co.za/ On 14 Feb 2013 17:46, "Peter Saint-Andre" <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2/14/13 2:47 AM, Mathias Ertl wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 10:26:24AM -0700, Peter Saint-Andre 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). > > > > In what way does that address the spam issue? What makes you think > > that Spammers will not just run their own servers eventually? You > > may have heard of a thing called botnets ;-) > > If your company or club or church or school (etc.) runs its own server > and disallows open registration (which isn't all that different from > running an open relay, is it?), then server admins will actually know > their users, instead of the situation we have now where admins of > large nodes on the network know nothing about their thousands or > millions of users. It's easier for troublemakers to hide in a large > mass of users, but harder in a small service that disallows open > registration. > > Maybe big providers like Google have ways to figure out who the bad > actors are, but smaller services run by volunteers don't have the time > or resources to do that kind of thing. > > I'm not saying that encouraging smaller servers is the only solution. > As we all know, there is never only one solution when dealing with > security, spam, and such problems. > > > I am however sure that "just run your own server if you want to use > > XMPP" will adress the "XMPP adoption" issue quite effectively, in > > that XMPP adoption will be even less then what it is now. > > Very funny. :-) > > 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/ > > iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRHSLXAAoJEOoGpJErxa2pJvkP/2b6OA3qba7mYx6XTifhS677 > Ki64Uj8EMSp6kzMoDI1VLXotuiIrfZOvaQ02F/JvCP8yQ/7RNydqpE3mGLRb8yjc > Mp4irHvGnngDYo7nidsh+5stwyGoTBp974VbzAwnXRxjxly9iIv7eh+W7ZWGrJy8 > mGkwEtVuJQTkvA0PB5i/heEAYEEDdWNAodeXH4ZqdAgYu5C52QTvVFoNG3nDemt1 > ixJAGoAfnLptnbrtOcF7m5Bg2PGieSF7KYamZ78z0Fgtm7eHfZGr2cIay2ukqwgn > 89hLxxWABFdZxpzP1uUf+G5e9DWA2tT4PKRcsznX90SkuigEv2WYXoxokL/bm2Nm > aAnB1cvner8dhgBq8zl9VYDe215qXOrkfYXpRmqNRg8qvV6ZI++R6sg+sVc1UtW2 > P4jMw6K0CQ82YUxqAYI2Mf+kRN97MBor833Om8dU7WwaJFidj4VP4sIOnZ7SrCHc > ch6ddYaso9HmMDOAR0trrlk8v1wiJOhgWPtOAHGoYXVqQPayRgioRaVgZJU1seac > 59knofxEDbNbpTgYGZRd+cN2iGM69CfLbCXP82e9zpDLHqJK5cadgQfjDUWDsSqS > mRyD5mam4AlokmoHb2k2OG+OZebEdPwlZdIul1hu/VAxGPjZBNWWZ6/b0FogCULH > ohv8HW+wPSO/d0wxfIgz > =57PM > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
