while this does sound really horrible, the pragmatic part of me is forced to agree with google's decision here. Other gtalk users undoubtedly account for the li

while this does sound really horrible, the pragmatic part of me is forced to agree with google's decision here. Other gtalk users undoubtedly account for the lion's share of incoming requests, while non-gtalk requests undoubtedly account for the lion's share of spam. it's much, much easier to whitelist the few 'good' jabber providers than to filter the spam.