[AG-TECH] Spam sent to room text chat

Thomas D. Uram turam at mcs.anl.gov
Thu Mar 12 10:05:16 CDT 2009


I've restarted the server and checked all the rooms for anything 
offensive, and found nothing.

At the moment, the only way I can think of to combat this problem in 
public rooms is to allow people (non-admins) to clear the chat history.

Tom


On 3/12/09 7:01 AM, Paul Kuchar wrote:
> Hi Natalia,
> We had to kill the Jabber on our venue servers this morning.
>
> We are currently looking at a way of deploying our own Jabber servers, but it is not straightforward.
>
> Regards,
> Paul Kuchar
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ag-tech-bounces at lists.mcs.anl.gov [mailto:ag-tech-bounces at lists.mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Natalia Costas Lago
> Sent: 12 March 2009 11:44
> To: ag-tech
> Subject: [AG-TECH] Spam sent to room text chat
>
>
> Dear all,
>
> We received porn and ads to the text chat in our Venue Server Lobby
> room. I have checked the jabber server the venue client uses is the following
>
>        "VenueServer.textHost" : 'jabber.mcs.anl.gov',
>
> I wonder if there are some documents that explain how to deploy our own
> jabber server. Or at least a way an admin can add some filters to
> avoid non allowed IP addresses send messages.
>
> Thanking you in advance.
> Kind regards,
>
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> Natalia Costas Lago
> Técnico de Comunicaciones - Dpto. de Comunicaciones
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> E-mail: natalia at cesga.es
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