[OTR-dev] OTR Encrypted File Transfer, Spec Draft

[Peter Saint-Andre]

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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

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