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		pseut on March 15, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google backslides on federated instant messaging, ... >I ask: if Google does not block outside requests, what could they do to stop this sort of thing? Have a separate "spam gchat invite" folder that you could review periodically to look for false positives.

mmanfrin on March 16, 2013 [–]

What's it based on? It's just invites.

pseut on March 16, 2013 | [–]

Right now, it could be a list of all invitations that come from non-google domains. I assume they could do better than that over time, but my point is that "decline and log for review" is an option whenever "decline alone" is. On review, you could whitelist the false positives.

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