[development] a bikeshed color problem

[Augustin (Beginner)]

On Sunday 24 September 2006 05:11 am, Bèr Kessels wrote:
> So before we can use such a ring/flock/group/p2p upgrade system, we need to
> find a way to sort out trust. Options I see right now are GPG/PGP keyrings,
> Ebay-alike trust ratings, or ability to define the people whom can access
> your datamine.

Hi Bèr,

Thank you for replying to my suggestion, about cooperating to fight spam 
better.

You suggest that a few trusted site owners cooperate together, in a small 
group, to exchange information as a starter for all the bayesian tokens.

This is interesting, but I was thinking about something on a much larger 
scale, which is perharps beyond the scope of this list, and probably 
un-doable and unrealistic anyway.

I don't understand the technology used by the spammers (their tools are not 
Open Source!), how they can use a simple robot to post spam from apparently 
different IPs.
I was hoping that there was a way to force all the virused, wormed, trojaned 
Windows boxes and unpatched websites used by the spammers to get fixed or 
shut down...


Anyway, thanks for replying.


Augustin.

Context:
http://www.wechange.org/informal_proposal_for_cooperation_to_fight_spam_at_the_source_of_the_problem
http://www.wechange.org/fighting_spam_at_the_source_and_the_color_of_the_bikeshed







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