-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 5/23/13 9:28 AM, Jonas Wielicki wrote: > I know that this proposal is kind of dangerous as it requires > introspection of the users messages. > > But how about this: After registration, the users is put on a > surveillance list, for like a few days or weeks. She shall be > notified about this, in the Terms of service and possibly by a > system tool reminding about that (good location to link to OTR > tools also). > > During that time, invitations are forced to have text, otherwise > they're rejected by the server. Additionally, all text messages are > scanned with a bayes filter, same for the invitation texts. > > If the filter alerts that it's possibly spam, it could highlight > that for an operator, who can then manually investigate the > account. If the account has been okay for a few weeks and produced > a reasonable amount of traffic, it can be removed from > surveillance.
Interesting idea. I'll think about it some more. > This is just a starting point; I am not an operator of an open > server (I operate a private one where I know everyone having an > account by face), IMHO that is the best approach: no open servers. See here: http://freeyourspeech.org/ > nor do I have to deal with spam issues right now, except in my > Inbox (where thunderbird does it's job just fine). > > I don't like that proposal too much myself, as it requires > intruding the users privacy to a certain extent for a certain > period of time. It's just what my mind came up putting all the > pieces I've seen on mailinglists these days together. There is no fundamental human right to an IM account at an open XMPP server. :-) So if there are hurdles to jump through for the typical user, I would not be deeply troubled. Peter - -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.19 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRnjdJAAoJEOoGpJErxa2pdl4P/13BQVHW4HKPt8sjkMGjt0ji DmbAciGYqDVSpp+9UGGBczqOlYq5LfEyXW064IGGo7PY9wNbE9N5J61wBg5Ae0Lf 3kcZ7oJzA3VaCNm1mQkLGlL40PV5zK+OQWa2jGTbgO2PYKMxh/1mpIAFGT/RtyWb HH4j/5CH1FbYHJhzN8WSCxdIm8wfGXl0S6t4vpoBIbzkPqoGQrNY6eDlhleqGcHN 4HlpeVrR/gaflS5xkY0jgZB/pji/hh/K5uKX92i6g7YGKviBUKfo3R/pKPSzoNQq PWMgofMpd11S3djigEmxeClGW9J2Mj12lPMYNZGIwWz1Rd6DJCHG03YLHiiRSZZR q1OCbswAKQFm0LWSPaqFIKoAqWHpQpObh1En4wIqk+XS3fsElCevidr76+qVPvIx JowW0etDWmzhe7RwLol68FsOs/4OYU2ZD5iqdfVfGDGkOVUVObD/dw1u+B6LBIH7 wVzzPgGI1n2lfw24xfGiwXjoCMoXF7W6iQ0lwE6so4hZRroEXmIQiMe9qhZVoCJc Z4GFMzQPTd+CdTpeZpRkiO7ERgiogA84FD1ONq2Mh684rPQLijkOb5H53o/0Hiw8 NC5gliJkY9nlX9pQ1a1dwWt4DTOXAI/ZNcvTcfaS5ZUCvHB1lyc+dpdxTXlALrQ4 7+TOfdUeFae1YCSPcDZv =O5sI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
