Fwd: Re: [Operators] Spam Registrations

[Peter Saint-Andre]

FYI...


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Operators] Spam Registrations
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 11:04:04 -0600
From: Peter Saint-Andre <stp...@stpeter.im>
Reply-To: XMPP Operators Group <oper...@xmpp.org>
To: XMPP Operators Group <oper...@xmpp.org>

On 5/23/13 10:57 AM, Alex Hanselka wrote:
> On 5/23/2013 10:22 AM, Kevin Smith wrote:
>> The best advice I can give is not to allow unprotected (i.e.
>> without a captcha or similar) inband registration, as people use
>> scripts to autoregister accounts across many servers using IBR.
>> If you require registration through a web page with captchas etc.
>> then at least a spammer has to target your server specifically,
>> rather than being able to use the same techniques across many
>> servers.
>>
>> /K
> Any ideas from you all here about doing something like this on
> Prosody? I'm not much of a programmer/scripter to be honest. The
> reason I do run an open server is that I feel it is important to
> the community. However, I am certainly not opposed to having a few
> hoops ;).

Join xmpp:pro...@conference.prosody.im and have a chat with the
developers there. :-)

Peter