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What would be the abuse issues from open peering? How were we able to solve them for email, but not IRC?
by albertgoeswoof 5y ago
What would be the abuse issues from open peering? How were we able to solve them for email, but not IRC?
- nickelpro 5y agoWe didn't, email spam exists to this day. The solution has been to ban entire swaths of domains and even IP ranges by chucking all mail from them into spam folders
- Doxin 5y agoThe problem is mainly that on IRC messages coming from a server connection are assumed to never be lies. A server can do anything from disconnecting people to spoofing messages. Which is in fact how services such as nickserv operate. If I don't log in to nickserv, nickserv will spoof a nickname change, blocking me from using the registered nickname. Having server connections be freely available to everyone is worse than giving everyone OPER powers.