From: Standards [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dave Cridland
Sent: 15 January 2017 10:17
To: XMPP Standards
Subject: Re: [Standards] Expected behavior when blocking all unknown JIDs

 

 

 

On 15 Jan 2017 07:39, "Evgeny Khramtsov" <[email protected]> wrote:

Fri, 13 Jan 2017 20:36:39 +0100
Kim Alvefur <[email protected]> wrote:

> If we think of blocking strangers by default as a privacy protection
> measure

Not everyone wants such rude default privacy.

 

I agree. I'd hate XMPP to be closed by default. One of the reasons we still 
have, and use, email extensively is because it doesn't have characteristics 
like this.

[Steve Kille] 

 

A setting for most users (default) where 1:1 messages from JIDs not in the 
roster are rejected seems good to me.   Possibly allow users to change this.

 

If you want to 1:1 message me, it seems reasonable to require subscription.

 

 

 

 

Subscription spam problem is still unresolved in this case.

[Steve Kille] 

 

Yes, but perhaps this is not such a big deal as the current spam we are 
getting.    

 

As a user,  I’d like a “report as spam” button option when I get a subscription 
request.   As well as a feel good factor, this information may help server side 
analysis to help block subscription spam.

 

 

If we only allowed messaging from subscribed contacts, then we would run a bad 
risk of making it more or less socially unacceptable to refuse a subscription 
request - yet that might also provide them with geoloc, for example. This feels 
wrong.

[Steve Kille] 

 

I don’t see this social acceptability model.   I get regular linked-in requests 
from people I’ve never heard of.   I just delete them.

 

It would be useful if subscription requests contained basic sender supplied 
context info.     This would let a user distinguish between “My grandmother has 
died and wants to leave you her fortune…”   and “I’ve seen your XEP and would 
like to discuss….”

 

This will help me decide on accepting a subscription.

 

Ideally,  I’d like to be able to group my roster members and control which 
(“close friends”) get to see more information on me, so that the geoloc issue 
above is resolved by better control of sharing information with my roster 
members.

 

 

 

Steve

 

 

 

 

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