XMPP Service Operators - 2020-05-19

I'm seeing a lot of messages lately that seem to contain a one word (or very short sentence) equivalent to the russian translation of "ignore"

getting it from various sources.

Does anyone recognize that?

Guus: it's a spambot network. If you answer to that, you get a spam post delivered to your full jid

Ge0rG did that spam registry ever take off?

Guus: you mean the xmpp spam WG?

it looked like the XSF wasn't interested in fighting spam, so I moved on

I ment the site where spammy domains were to be reported and published, but the WG would be welcome too.

I'm thinking it's more of a balance of priorities than a lack of interest...

Guus: github repo, yes

Guus: https://github.com/JabberSPAM/blacklist

Yeah, that's the one

Good to see it now has more than one entry 🙂

it's living by volunteer work!

everybody can put online a list of domains, but curating one according to objective principles is Real Work

Yeah, and for those bigger spamserver list you never know by what criteria they picked the servers, whether they contacted the operators and give them a chance to react and if they have a process to get delisted. So Ge0rGs approach is IMO a lot better.

Turns out I actually published a basic plugin for Openfire that checks 'from' addresses against entries on a blacklist to be retrieved from an URL

https://github.com/igniterealtime/openfire-blacklistSpam-plugin

totally untested, plugin isn't being published as a binary.

but feel free to shoot holes at it / add issues to the github issue tracker for fixes, additional features, etc. PRs welcome.

Guus, the most important part of this blacklist is what happens before, that is spammed people should report the spam to service admins, eventually threatening to report them to their ISP.

No argument here. I don't have code for that ready to be played with though. 🙂