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Obvious fix here: only allow chat invites from people you have sent an email to. Google could return an error to blocked invites to inform them that they must g
by RyanZAG 14y ago
Obvious fix here: only allow chat invites from people you have sent an email to. Google could return an error to blocked invites to inform them that they must get the recipient to send them an email first.
I can't see any downsides and it definitely solves the spam problem. If they could make it apply to other gmail accounts as well, even better. I've gotten annoying gchat requests from sweety69@gmail.com as well.
- zdw 14y agoThis could work, and is much better than blackholing all the federation requests.
- guard-of-terra 14y agoNot all Jabber services provide e-mail. How would you write an email from one that doesn't?
- jrockway 14y ago"Great is the enemy of good."
- codemac 14y agoMost people on federated servers are specifically on servers like xmpp.us, jabber.org, etc that don't have associated email accounts. This isn't perfect being the enemy of the good, it's a description of why it's not even good.
- pseut 14y agoThe Gmail user could add the account to their contacts without sending an email. Hell, they could send an email to a nonexistent jabber address to whitelist the account (which might be easier than adding the account manually for some people). As long as the email doesn't have to go through...