-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 6/5/13 12:20 PM, Chris Ballinger wrote: > I talked to Miron about this before and my hesitations about > sending it through the chat channel is that you risk being > throttled or banned by the service because sending a file looks > similar to a DoS attack. > > Back in the 90s on AIM you could only send so many messages so > quickly before it would boot you off the service. I would be very > surprised if messaging systems today wouldn't do something > similar.
As the operator of a somewhat large IM service, I can guarantee you that such operators almost always enforce rate limiting. Peter - -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.19 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRr4PAAAoJEOoGpJErxa2pSPEQAKjXyieO3GZILUfszksTQ5op Mi4SQ4tixXX26WZEGVGwe3xShKchmIUDwXgknIhs/RIrsFOrGd6LzENSMojhb/Bk nJ84OQpyDh7WryuQp3iSW9oerigPd4zYiHezSAz86o2KlhZrf1l2oHM028ym7Z9D Spi2k4tXo9ODUgmDdn/0rfKLPP3hgek/mdjr+U7lUqTuz034qIpkTgRggbD5kPcL Bbo2WypA/sr7OvM6bW+7bQAlZ5b4BncVUvpjo6qSWvbLlCuoSCpbM2sac5+SY714 +uCUSYgmKo7ByvhuvXWQfii3TzfFwFvmlmyms+X3JPmpZnz1ArQj2XgPvNAemqnH tblKrJxe7xVk1ELN0NgKGsxvuckvwHKah66XpXFyZXLsfb98mzYfsh6Rgb2Q3C4v 8DKM0a38f1RXAlsUobAHWlJRfGkOt31MZldc/EsxBacs+O1MoKVlEw5u5ghHiV4d 31llIIHwEn1Ts+EbNT75u42aYumJNYmty4p1/kdv2QzANqWxXVIPx3Ip3ZnPOvIG Dtt3q9w38eJMGaa+Y7ZGRflkH6zeplDvwR+7GiA/FWiuUuhFuzCYgthY3kc7r2vz N8dwzSAZk96SJENq8XSLoqugkSgpWEXbTJt9/+KPhpXTj1yHFxVq09bBZVkp9T6q jY8PdyXPEXboEPZpIs34 =gRej -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ OTR-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/mailman/listinfo/otr-dev
