Hi all, There was brief discussion earlier about adding the ability to "block everyone that I don't have in my roster" to XEP-0191: Blocking Command [1].
I was thinking about how this could be done, and it occured to me that it may break the UX a bit. Currently the blocking command blocks *everything* from blocked JIDs; so if you block all JIDs not on your roster, you could never receive a subscription request to add them to your roster. If two accounts both had non-contacts blocked, they'd effectively have to add eachother in parallel; there would be no ability to send a request. We could of course add the ability to block just messages and IQs from contacts not in your roster, but then you could still receive spam via subscription requests with a message. What would people generally expect to happen in this situation? The more I think about it the more I think doing this is effectively an anti-pattern that we shouldn't support (I've never heard of someone blocking everyone who wasn't in their address book from sending them emails), but I wanted to find out what the community thinks. —Sam [1]: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0191.html _______________________________________________ Standards mailing list Info: https://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/standards Unsubscribe: standards-unsubscr...@xmpp.org _______________________________________________
