On Friday 10 August 2007 21:23, Edgar Friendly wrote: > Jerome Flesch wrote: > > With a WoT, if you accept to read the new-comers, you accept to read the > > spam. So in the end, you risk to end with no-one reading anymore the > > posts from the newbies. > > Might it work to distribute the load of looking at unsigned posts to all > readers? Instead of a few trusted people looking through mounds of spam > to find a few newbie posts, maybe each user could get a dozen posts to > filter for the community. I don't know if a random distribution or some > sort of slicing method would work better, they each have their ups and > downs.
Hashcash/thinkcash puzzles set by each user approximate this. The difficulty could automatically escalate over multiple posts, and de-escalate over time. > > Instead of whitelisting posts, one might as well whitelist people, and > then we arrive back at the web of trust solution. > > E. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20070811/4dff24f8/attachment.pgp>
