* Solomon Peachy <[email protected]> [2017-09-02 10:27]: > On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 05:51:39PM +0200, Holger Weiß wrote: > > And either way your comparison doesn't hold. If you're operating an > > open SMTP relay, you're doing something you can't do with XMPP. We're > > talking about blocking service providers who have *local* spammers. > > Fair enough -- but regardles of the technical differences under > the hood (unsecured relay, or trivial to create accounts and use > them) users are still being innundated by spim from a server whose > operator will not, or cannot, clean up their act.
You can configure an SMTP server to not act as a relay, but you can't configure an XMPP server to not send spam. > This crap can and will drive users away from federated XMPP altogether, > and is a far bigger practical problem than non-encrypted S2S comms. I fully agree. Holger
