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mod_blocking: Deprecate
author Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se>
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2 labels:
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3 - Stage-Deprecated
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4 rockspec:
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5 dependencies:
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6 - mod_privacy_lists
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7 summary: "XEP-0191: Simple Communications Blocking support"
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10 ::: {.alert .alert-warning}
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11 This module is deprecated as it depends on the deprecated
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12 [mod_privacy_lists], use the core module
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13 [mod_blocklist][doc:modules:mod_blocklist] instead.
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14 :::
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16 Introduction
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17 ============
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19 Privacy lists are a widely implemented protocol for instructing your
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20 server on blocking communications with selected users and services.
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22 However experience has shown that the power and flexibility of the
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23 rule-based system that privacy lists allow is very often much more
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24 complex than the user needs, and that in most cases a simple block on
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25 all communications to or from a list of specified JIDs would suffice.
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27 Such a protocol would also allow much simpler user interface design than
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28 the current attempts at full privacy list interfaces.
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30 Details
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31 =======
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33 Simple Communications Blocking was developed to solve the above issues,
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34 and allows the client to manage a simple list of blocked JIDs. This
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35 plugin implements support for that protocol in Prosody, however the
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36 actual blocking is still managed by mod\_privacy, so it is **required**
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37 for that plugin to be loaded (this may change in future).
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39 An XEP-0191 implementation without dependency on mod\_privacy is
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40 available in Prosody 0.10 as [mod\_blocklist][doc:modules:mod_blocklist].
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42 Configuration
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43 =============
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45 Simply ensure that mod\_privacy (or [mod\_privacy\_lists] in 0.10+) and
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46 mod\_blocking are loaded in your modules\_enabled list:
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48 modules_enabled = {
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49 -- ...
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50 "privacy", -- or privacy_lists in Prosody 0.10+
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51 "blocking",
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52 -- ...
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54 Compatibility
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55 =============
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58 0.10 Works but will conflict with mod\_blocklist
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59 0.9 Works
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60 0.8 Works
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61 0.7 Works
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62 0.6 Doesn't work
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