XMPP Service Operators - 2021-10-26

lol

I never got spam from creep.im. But I hear that you can make lots of money with spam. You just need to help some oncle of a princess to transfer some money, right? Where can I sign up?

I heard creep.im is on some spam black lists, and I wonder if those black lists are working at all. people are still whining every now and then...

Not everyone is using those.

The preferred solution would be to stop the spam and get creep.im delisted.

utopia-solution

And who's gonna help that oncle from this princess? Sounds selfish to just stop their effort for help

not sure if you aware, but creep.im is available in Tor

that's why it's tricky to stop abusive users

Don't you get reports so that you just delete the given account?

I never get any reports

operators are lazy

Well then no wonder.

it's simpler to just whine here

ah, wait, I got a report from Ge0rG once

was it a year ago Ge0rG?

I swear, I don't remember

So we can just fix the issue by sending reports to you I guess. If you see spam, report to admin.

> I never get any reports > operators are lazy I never got beyond your captchas if you remember. 😁

creep.im: https://github.com/JabberSPAM/blacklist/commit/70c122e02c297803e94aa90b5849d538b269761e

And you didn't read your emails.

Oh something I also noticed: some admins say you should report to their jid, but they block every message that comes from a person not in their roster.

creep.im: > not sure if you aware, but creep.im is available in Tor > that's why it's tricky to stop abusive users Forcing them through the process of asking nicely in a support chat to unrestrict their account seems to be working fine for yax.im. Or would it be too time-consuming due to the number of Tor registrations you get?

mjk: it works because only a few yax.im accounts are registered throuh proxies.

dismail.de did the same in the past. Also available via Tor. (Edit: oh, or was that for email? I don't remember.) ✏

Ge0rG: maybe that's _because_ of this policy ;)

mjk: well, it's not about stopping privacy-aware users, it's about the thouands of bot registrations.

Sure, I mean could be spammers are just deterred by that in the first place

Assuming they know your server employs such a restriction

I think they realized after the first few thousand account regs

It's working! :thumb-up:

A non-technical implementation of CAPTCHA is still one

And is probably best for privacy

what I do is neither CA nor PT, it's just CHA.

Right :)