Re: How is XMPP better than SMTP for spam prevention?

Torsten Bronger <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.jabber.user
Organization Phoenix Foundation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hallöchen!

Lastwebpage writes:

> Hello
> I notice another point, where I see no solution, and I must admit, I
> have no good ideas too, but its similiar to email spam. After spend some
> thoughts I think this is the main point of all spam problems.
>
> What about the JID creation?
> When I would be a spammer, I would create a account on jabber.org.
> After I get the JID I would start my program which connect to different
> servers, search for users in MUCs or use the user directories and hope
> that enough people buy my little blue pills.
>
> After some hours I notice that some servers starts to block my
> spam-messages. oooohhhh, okay, visit jabber.org again to get a new JID
> cost 10 seconds... :p

This is what Peter Saint-Andre meant with

>>> (or, for instance, tighten up or turn off in-band registration,
>>> which is user-friendly but also makes it possible to create lots
>>> of accounts at multiple servers).

I'd love to keep this feature, though.

Tschö,
Torsten.

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Torsten Bronger, aquisgrana, europa vetus
                   Jabber ID: [email protected]

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