I'm just wondering about some things : - what are we supposed to consider as spam ? At first, I thought spam was any mail that you got w/o first subscribing somewhere. But I rapidly discovered, with razor, that lots of ppl consider Bigfoot announcements, and other well-known sites' announcements as spam. Are we supposed to report or revoke these messages ?
- what's the strength of the whole trust system ? what happens if a well known site, let's say Bigfoot, again, decides that they don't want their e-mails to be blacllisted anymore. So, they create, for example, a quick'n dirty shell script that automagically creates razor identities and revoke all their announcements on the razor network. Let's suppose they have 5 or 6 powerful computers doing this all day long. Then everybody's trust is going to go down if they report spam, and it's gonna be useless. You're gonna say it's not really a problem, but what happens if all spamers do the same thing... then the whole razor network becomes stupid, right ? > Trust assignments are based on the collective notion of correctness and > trust doesn't necessarily correlate with volume and/or number of people > who agree/disagree on a decision. People who report indiscriminately don't > have a high trust rating, even if they are prolific (and part of what > moderates them down is revokes from other trusted users). In general, you > should do what _you_ think is correct. If you are careful about your > assertions, other trusted reporters (other people who are careful about > their reports) are likely to agree with you. > > Trust systems are emergent, so there's never a guaranteed result - you > should voice your opinion irrespective of the outcome. In the larger > scheme of things, individual trust ratings are not important, it doesn't > really matter whether you have negative or positive trust, what matters is > that confidence values generated by TeS are consistent so you can set the > confidence threshold that suits your needs. > > One of the features I want to add to razor-users is an easy way to inspect > the confidence values of spam, so people can set local cf values. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en _______________________________________________ Razor-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/razor-users
