Re: Good Domain List one step closer to reality (actually two steps)

On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 01:20:46PM -0700, Mark C. Langston wrote:
> With GOSSiP, the it takes as long as the mail administrator decides is
> adequate to establish a good behavior baseline.  Could be 100 emails,
> could be 10,000, or higher.  Note that "good reputation" and "bad
> reputation" are not the only two categories.  There is the unknown
> region that Meng describes nicely on the page I mentioned earlier.  That
> unknown area just means, "proceed with caution -- I either don't have
> enough data to declare this identity as having a good or poor
> reputation, or their behavior is so inconsistent that their reputation
> score hovers between the two." (GOSSiP has another parameter allowing
> the system to distinguish between these two cases).
So, accredition means paying big bucks, something only larger companies
can do. Reputation means sending out lots and lots of mails, again
something only big companies do. Again, the smaller companies are
screwed. Great.

Koen

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