Posted by axxackall at 2005-06-11 15:36:22
Perhaps there are some ICQ user who are very opened, even to spammers. But not
me. I am tired to unsibscribe all of them several times a day. Even worse -
I do
not like that my jabber client remembers all unsubscribed contacts and thus
overloads my contact list on the server-side.
Counting the fact that most of spammers are from ICQ it could be good to add a
"strict" mode, when subscription requests are passed to the client
only from contacts already in the list (my friends have a way to inform me
their
ICQ UIN).
P.S. I scanned pyicq for a place to hack and found that perhaps it could be
done
in legacy/icqt.py somewhere in the branch if(subtype == "subscribe")
but unfortunately I do not have time for debugging it. If anyone suffers from
ICQ spammers and have time to fix it - many of us would appreciate it.
Posted by jadestorm at 2005-06-11 15:56:52
I used to get a lot of ICQ spam myself actually, and then I found that if I
disable my "web presence" that it occured far less frequently.
Apparantly it's -reaaaaally- easy to gather people to spam using the web
presence. Anyway, ICQ itself, I believe, has the ability to say "accept
all subscription requests, ask me, deny all subscription requests" so... I
see no reason why PyICQ shouldn't. Note, however, that I need to get the user
prefs stuff worked out first.
Posted by random at 2005-07-04 12:45:25
Also an option for blacklisting/whitelisting UIN-s (globaly, on the transport
level or per user) would be great!
Posted by maxbritov at 2005-07-28 15:26:48
And will be nice if pyicq allow made whitelists for different account (very
helpful for admins). I will able to lock uids range for some user.
Posted by yves at 2006-05-18 17:39:31
Any progress on this?
I'm getting a lot of spam and auth requests the last two days, since I switched
over to PyICQt with my main Jabber account. I'd say that PyICQt should offer an
option to auto-deny and forget all auth requests from unknown users (= not
on my
list). Messages are okay, but I won't authorise anybody that I don't know
anyway. That would save me a lot sometimes.
I've realised that I had the web presence still on. Turned it off now,
let's see
if that helps.
Posted by jadestorm at 2006-05-20 15:56:49
No progress, but web presence makes a hell of a difference, it's kinda
ridiculous.
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