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−---
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−labels:
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−- 'Stage-Alpha'
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−summary: 'XEP-0191: Simple Communications Blocking support'
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−...
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−
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−Introduction
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−============
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−
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−Privacy lists are a widely implemented protocol for instructing your
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−server on blocking communications with selected users and services.
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−
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−However experience has shown that the power and flexibility of the
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−rule-based system that privacy lists allow is very often much more
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−complex than the user needs, and that in most cases a simple block on
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−all communications to or from a list of specified JIDs would suffice.
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−
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−Such a protocol would also allow much simpler user interface design than
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−the current attempts at full privacy list interfaces.
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−
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−Details
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−=======
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−
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−Simple Communications Blocking was developed to solve the above issues,
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−and allows the client to manage a simple list of blocked JIDs. This
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−plugin implements support for that protocol in Prosody, however the
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−actual blocking is still managed by mod\_privacy, so it is **required**
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−for that plugin to be loaded (this may change in future).
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−
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−An XEP-0191 implementation without dependency on mod\_privacy is
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−available in Prosody 0.10 as [mod\_blocklist][doc:modules:mod_blocklist].
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−
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−Configuration
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−=============
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−
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−Simply ensure that mod\_privacy (or [mod\_privacy\_lists] in 0.10+) and
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−mod\_blocking are loaded in your modules\_enabled list:
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−
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−        modules_enabled = {
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−                        -- ...
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−                        "privacy", -- or privacy_lists in Prosody 0.10+
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−                        "blocking",
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−                        -- ...
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−
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−Compatibility
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−=============
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−
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−  ------ ---------------------------------------------
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−  0.10   Works but will conflict with mod\_blocklist
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−  0.9    Works
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−  0.8    Works
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−  0.7    Works
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−  0.6    Doesn't work
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−  ------ ---------------------------------------------