[webteam] We are popular

[Adam Nemeth]

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Matthew Wild <mwild1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Adam Nemeth <aadaam at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hmm,
> >
> > As I usually say, for a certain problem, there exists a few solutions,
> and a
> > lot of non-solution.
> >
> > Having a blinking text is a non-solution: I believe we have to bind the
> > jabber.org website login into the jabber.org IDs.
> >
>
> Maybe, but is this practical for jabber.org's large number of users?


People think that registration is done over web. It works for ICQ, it works
for MSN, it works for AIM, and it works for Yahoo!. If it does not work for
jabber, it's a FAULT, as you can see. I hope it's obvious and clear, because
people DO register on the site, without doing anything else. Texts won't
help this.

>
> Will registering in-band create an account on the site? (thereby
> bypassing any CAPTCHA)


I think I already told on some list, that having IBR is like telnet: it
worked for the 90s, yet the internet today is a different world. If jabber
will ever get really popular, IBR will cease, since it simply does not work.
Right now, if I would like to spam the whole jabber world, I could do it,
and one of the reasons why, is just the simple fact,that IBR exists.

Trying to save the jabber.org forums from spamming but exposing the jabber
network for the same, well, it does not seem to me a viable argument.

Who will do that SMALL plugin which tries to authenticate against a remote
postgresql server's user table?


>
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Peter Schwindt <peter at schwindt-net.de>
> > wrote:
> > > * Matthew Wild <mwild1 at gmail.com> [080426 18:44]:
> > >
> > > > From IRC:
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > Pidgin or some Jabber support channel?
>
> (#)#jabber on Freenode
>
> > >
> > > But yes, I opt for at least <blink>, too :)
> > >
> > > Peter
> > >
> >
>
> PS. I was joking about the blinking marquees :P
>



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Aadaam <aadaam at gmail.com>
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