Craig,
For the most part, 99% times 99% users agree on what is spam. This is the
nature of the spam problem. Now if you were to use a "personal trust"
system, you'd have a huge personal trust group that would include 99% of
the userbase. This means 99% times you'd be coming to the same conclusion,
only after burning several orders of magnitude more CPU cycles. That would
be stupid. Also, it would take several orders of magnitude longer to
bootstrap and reach effectiveness. Sub-optimal in the extreme.
As regards to the problems with the "gray" areas you mentioned, servers
recognize such content, and razor-agents can use this information to make
individual determination. Not to mention, users can set a local confidence
level they are confortable with.
cheers,
vipul.
On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 01:09:22PM -0700, Craig R . Hughes wrote:
> By system-trust vs personal trust I don't mean that the system doesn't
> have a trust rating for each user, but rather that each individual has
> one system-wide trust rating. Your trust rating for scoring my mail is
> the same as your trust rating for scoring your own email, or Joe
> Schmoe's email. You may be great at flagging most spam, but just really
> bad at flagging one particular piece of controversial mail which is
> "gray spam" -- ie some people love it, others hate it. Ideally, I should
> have my own personal trust score for you which agrees with my beliefs
> about that controversial mail, rather than the system-wide beliefs. If
> that doesn't happen, then depending on the trust system's weightings,
> there are 3 possibilities:
>
> 1. All "gray" mail is blocked as spam (ie lots of false positives for
>    individual users)
> 2. All "gray" mail is allowed through as nonspam (ie lots of false
>    negatives for individuals)
> 3. The entire trust system collapses because noone is trusted due to
>    conflicting votes about "gray" spam.
--
Vipul Ved Prakash          |   "The future is here, it's just not
Software Design Artist     |    widely distributed."
http://vipul.net/          |              -- William Gibson
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