abuse & legal
this is the page where most hosts write three paragraphs about how "seriously" they take your report. i'll be quicker than that.
reporting abuse
someone using an xmpp.lol address to be a genuine menace? sure, tell me. a report i can actually act on contains all of this:
- the xmpp.lol account in question (the full address or JID).
- what they actually did, in plain words.
- the full message including all source headers. without headers i am just reading a screenshot, and i can't do anything with a screenshot.
send it to abuse@xmpp.lol. i read every one. i reply to almost none of them. if an account is genuinely causing problems for other people, it's gone quietly and you'll never hear about it. that's the system working.
law enforcement
here is the part you came for. i'll keep it honest instead of dressing it up in lawyer words:
$ cat ./response-to-legal-requests.txt I do not have a legal team. I do not have a compliance department. I do not have a portal where you upload your warrant and get a ticket number. There is just me, and I am not interested. I'm not based where you are. Your order is, with great respect, a PDF from a jurisdiction that has no authority over this box. It will be read with the same enthusiasm as the spam in the abuse@ inbox, which is to say: eventually, and then never again. [exit 0]
none of that is me being clever. the simpler truth is on the privacy page: i can't hand over data i never wrote down. there are no IP logs tied to your messages, no read receipts, no stored mail bodies once they're delivered and you've pulled them. you can serve me the most beautifully notarized document in the world and the honest answer is the same — there's nothing in the drawer.
if you still feel the need to send something official, the address is legal@xmpp.lol. encrypt it to the published PGP key, or don't — it ends up in the same place either way.
things i will not do
- add a backdoor "just this once."
- start logging a specific user because you asked nicely.
- tip anyone off before deleting their account, or after. i just don't.
- pretend the warrant canary means nothing. if it stops updating, read between the lines.
DMCA
this is an e-mail and XMPP host. i do not host public content. a DMCA notice about someone's private mail is like filing a takedown against a phone call — i'll read it, admire the effort, and move on.