On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 09:27:34PM +0100, Jon Kyme wrote:
Also, big anti-spam sites like spamcop could create "reputation lists"
for
validated domains.
Right, and we could call that what? A whitelist?
I'd imagine a "reputation list" to be something more informative than a
normal whitelist. Whitelists are binary: you're either on it, or you're
not. A "reputation list" (or, more generally, reputation service) would
provide a metric of some sort that measures the entity's behavior
against some known standards of behavior.
One could then adjust the received metric according to how much one
trusts/values that reputation-reporting system, and/or how much credence
one puts in the standards against which entities are evaluated.
In short, a reputation system would locate each entity at a point along
a continuum, and people could choose which reputation system(s) they
want to use to evaluate incoming mail.
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