On 10/12/2011 8:29 AM, Matthew Wild wrote:
On 12 October 2011 15:44, Kim Alvefur<[email protected]> wrote:
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From: Mathias Ertl<[email protected]>
Reply-to: XMPP Operators Group<[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Operators] Strange users
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:51:23 +0200
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To make a long story short: I think we have a significant spamming problem on
jabber.
So, is it time to bring up the various anti-spam/abuse related XEPs?
No, it's not. XEPs are words, not action. The best way to properly
revive the XEPs and ensure they'll stay revived is to implement them.
I have some code for reporting already - if you're interested in
working on it then I can find it for you...
Regards,
Matthew
Agreed, I haven't looked at the XEPs for anti-spam, but if you determine
that a user is a spammer, then just reject their login. If you determine
that a message stanza is SPIM, just block it. I don't think we can cut a
deal with the spammers to stop what they're doing until the community
can converge on an anti-spam XEP.
With spim, spam, and abuse, a lot of times the difficult part is to
identify the bad user or the bad stanza without accidentally denying
service to legitimate users. An XEP is more useful for telling you what
the standard procedure is for dealing with spam than telling you how to
identify spam.
Mike
