We are going to need some common way for relays that agree with each other’s policies to coordinate on block/spam lists.

Aside from the obvious pay2relay that solves most problems…

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Wanna hear my proposal?

Absolutely.

Of course

Opt-in feature on relays to gossip about spammers. Relays broadcast the offending public keys and IP addresses. Relays maintain a whitelist of other relays from which they accept gossip (there’s some trust involved).

Gossip can be ephemeral events that can be sent to clients, clients send back to other relays they are connected.

That could be cool, there could be “private” relays just specialized as “spam bank” where only relays chat with them.

I read “sperm bank”.

Potato, potåto

Agree. Fast blocking spammers in certain situations would be best for user experience.

The problem with that coordinated type of agreements is that it can also serve for coordinated blacklisting?

Nothing wrong with that as ppl can go choose relay groups that don’t participate in the same sets of blocking lists.