On Monday, August 12, 2002, at 11:06  AM, Jehan wrote:
> Craig R.Hughes wrote:
>> This is, I think the biggest fallacy here.  You don't have to
>> block jack shit to get a high trust rating, you just have to
>> confirm Razor's existing opinion on a large number of messages:
>> if(check() == spam) then submit() else revoke()
>> That algorithm boosts trust, but reduces the information in
>> SpamNet by damping.
>
> If you know a way to prevent people (spammer or not) to do that
> while allowing you to do it, pray, tell me.
>
> And I imagine easily that if someone submit/revoke at a very
> high rate, some alarm triggers on Razor's server resulting in
> their user id to be disabled/deleted.
> I also suspect that the more you submit/revoke the same mail,
> the less influence it has on your trust. And since there isn't
> millions of different spam (it's always the same ones coming
> back over and over with maybe one or two different words, i.e.
> the same mail if fuzzy signatures work well), I guess that
> spammer will reach there limit pretty quickly.
I was thinking you could easily create a spamtrap which you
subscribe to lots of legitimate nonspam mailing lists, plus you
also spread the email address around and get it in the hands of
lots of spammers so it ends up receiving large quantities of
both spam and nonspam, then you have it apply the algorithm
above to the incoming mail stream.  So it could be thousands of
actual real, different, emails per day.  The "very high rate
triggers alarms" thing is certainly something which would be
possible to check for, but there may be legitimate ways to
exhibit this behavior -- can't think of one right now but "AOL
proxy server" springs to mind as an example from another domain.
C
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