Re: How is XMPP better than SMTP for spam prevention?
naw <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.jabber.user |
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El Lunes 11 Agosto 2008, Lastwebpage escribió: > Some question about this: > -Why there is no time delay between the click on the "register" button > and the JID creation? The spammer could create idle accounts while spamming, and when his current account gets blocked, he simply pick one of the account created before. I think that for that kind of things should be better to force to send an email with a confirmation link. > If I am a regular user I can wait one hour or longer before I get my > JID for Jabber. There is no need for me to get this JID immediately. > Maybe you, but figure that I'm explaing to somebody how connect to jabber (i.e. because his legacy system is offline): Ok, open your client, and choose an username, click register, now wait an hour.... At this point I prefer to not see his/her face. And in a hour, the legacy service will have become online again. > -Why there is not any kind of authentification? > On every moderated mailinglist, email account or other wenbservices I > get an email with a confirmation link. Sure, this eMails are not the > best solution, but better than nothing. > -- Jabber-ID: [email protected] [email protected] _______________________________________________ This is JUser -- a mailing list for end users of Jabber clients. Don't like email? Try the forum: http://www.jabberforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=21 To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] or go to the following web page, scroll all the way down, and type in your email address: http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/juser _______________________________________________