On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 02:48:54PM -0700, Mark C. Langston wrote:
| Given the recent discussion of reputation systems, I've decided to
| finally start working on my distributed reputation system in earnest.
|
| The working title for the project is: Gossip Optimized for
| Selective Spam Prevention (GOSSiP).
|
| There's a website that details the current concepts at
| http://sufficiently-advanced.net
Congrats and thanks for taking the initiative to work on this.
What does the GOSSIP response to the SMTP server look like?
Is it a single number, or does it contain richer
information?
As a client, when I query GOSSIP with the parameters
(address=XXX(_at_)YYY, domain=YYY,
context=(helo|ptr|return-path|pra|from|other))
I would prefer to get back from the GOSSIP black-box a set
of key/value pairs indicating
- the total number of messages observed by GOSSIP,
- the total number of spam complaints received by GOSSIP,
- the age of the domain in question
- the observation profile of the domain
- overall "risk score" or "credit rating"
and a bunch of other stuff that may depend on the identity
context.
cheers
meng