On 06/05/2013 02:30 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: > 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
Rate limiting will affect both XMPP in-band and OTR in-band the same. Only an out-of-band file transfer would get around that. So we'll need to find a way to deal with that gracefully regardless of whether its in-band XMPP or OTR. .hc
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