Re: registrations and spam
Stalithe <[email protected]> Wed, 29 Oct 2014 00:10:53 +0100
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--===============0835226322== Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 <html><head></head><body><div style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: 12.0px;"><div>Just letting you know that I will no longer be checking this e-mail account (I set it up so that I wouldn't have to expose my personal e-mail address on a public mailing list). My offer to help is therefore, in effect, expired. I wish you well.... <div> <div style="margin: 10.0px 5.0px 5.0px 10.0px;padding: 10.0px 0 10.0px 10.0px;border-left: 2.0px solid rgb(195,217,229);"> <div style="margin: 0 0 10.0px 0;"><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 20, 2014 at 1:31 PM<br/> <b>From:</b> Stalithe <[email protected]><br/> <b>To:</b> "Jabber/XMPP end-user discussion list" <[email protected]><br/> <b>Subject:</b> Re: [Juser] registrations and spam</div> <div> <div style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: 12.0px;"> <div>Please let me know, Matthew -- I can code, or I can provide ideas you may implement yourself. <div> <div style="margin: 10.0px 5.0px 5.0px 10.0px;padding: 10.0px 0 10.0px 10.0px;border-left: 2.0px solid rgb(195,217,229);"> <div style="margin: 0 0 10.0px 0;"><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 20, 2014 at 3:59 AM<br/> <b>From:</b> "Peter Saint-Andre" <[email protected]><br/> <b>To:</b> [email protected]<br/> <b>Subject:</b> Re: [Juser] registrations and spam</div> <div>Thanks for your offer of assistance! These are bots, not people. Matthew<br/> Wild (who is on this list) did some thinking and early code to overcome<br/> these challenges, but I'm not sure where he stands with that. Perhaps<br/> some collaboration is in order. :-)<br/> <br/> Peter<br/> <br/> On 8/19/14, 5:55 PM, Stalithe wrote:<br/> > If the problem is primarily that bots are registering accounts, I believe I could help you to address this problem. I have experience with building robust countermeasures to automated form submissions, integrating methods inspired from primary as well as secondary research.<br/> ><br/> > If, on the other hand, the problem is that real people are registering the accounts (and then using those accounts to send spam (whether manually or through automation)), I have some ideas about how you might mitigate that problem as well.<br/> ><br/> > On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter at stpeter.im>wrote:<br/> >> Registration is still disabled because we haven't figured out a way to<br/> >> offer it without allowing lots of spammer accounts onto the system, and<br/> >> such accounts cause us a lot of trouble.<br/> >><br/> >> You folks do realize that there are a mere half dozen *volunteers* running<br/> >> the jabber.org IM service, right? ;-)<br/> >><br/> >> Peter<br/> > _______________________________________________<br/> > This is JUser -- a mailing list for end users<br/> > of Jabber/XMPP clients.<br/> ><br/> > To unsubscribe, send email to<br/> > [email protected]<br/> > or go to the following web<br/> > page, scroll all the way down,<br/> > and type in your email address:<br/> ><br/> > <a href="http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/juser" target="_blank">http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/juser</a><br/> > _______________________________________________<br/> ><br/> <br/> _______________________________________________<br/> This is JUser -- a mailing list for end users<br/> of Jabber/XMPP clients.<br/> <br/> To unsubscribe, send email to<br/> [email protected]<br/> or go to the following web<br/> page, scroll all the way down,<br/> and type in your email address:<br/> <br/> <a href="http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/juser" target="_blank">http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/juser</a><br/> _______________________________________________</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html> --===============0835226322== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ This is JUser -- a mailing list for end users of Jabber/XMPP clients. 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 _______________________________________________ --===============0835226322==--