Re: [Razor-users] Reporting known spam

2006-08-09 Thread Vipul Ved Prakash
Title: RE: [Razor-users] Reporting known spam Hi, Razor uses a trust metric to assign reputations to reporters. New reporters start at 0 and have to build up trust by exhibiting agreement with existing trusted reporters. This protects against various forms of "ballot stuffing" at

Re: [Razor-users] Reporting known spam

2006-08-09 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 06:27:11PM +0200, Jörg Zieren wrote: > I somewhat assumed that each report counts only once per account, and that > newly created accounts start with zero credibility, so the above scenario > or close derivatives would be impossible. This is just speculation > though... M

Re: [Razor-users] Reporting known spam

2006-08-09 Thread Jörg Zieren
Kelson wrote: > Thomas Jarosch wrote: >> Let's assume the spam mail is already known to the Razor network, >> but the spam score wasn't sufficent for marking the mail as spam. >> >> Is it ok or even desired to report the mail again to the Razor network? >> IMHO this will boost the spam confidence

Re: [Razor-users] Reporting known spam

2006-08-09 Thread Kelson
Thomas Jarosch wrote: > Let's assume the spam mail is already known to the Razor network, > but the spam score wasn't sufficent for marking the mail as spam. > > Is it ok or even desired to report the mail again to the Razor network? > IMHO this will boost the spam confidence of the message, righ

[Razor-users] Reporting known spam

2006-08-09 Thread Thomas Jarosch
Hello, I justed started using Razor and must say I'm very pleased with the results :-) If nevertheless a spam message ends up in my inbox, I just hit a button to execute razor-report and then automatically delete the message. Let's assume the spam mail is already known to the Razor network, but t