Matthew Toseland wrote: > On Thursday 16 August 2007 00:22, Michael Rogers wrote: >> I agree, fragmentation is a very important issue. Hopefully there will >> be enough newbies (who have to disable filtering and trawl through the >> spam until they've established themselves in the web of trust) to knit >> the community back together if it fragments. "If there is hope, it lies >> in the n00bs." > > Why must hope lie in the n00bs? If they have to trawl through all the spam > then they're lost already - they're out the door, they're uninstalling.
Probably true, but unavoidable as far as I can see. Newbies don't know who to trust, so they have no way to filter spam. The only way to decide who to trust is to read some messages. That means filtering will have to be disabled by default, and newbies will have to spend a while trawling through spam before enabling it. Once you've found a few non-spambots and marked them GOOD, the process could be speeded up with some kind of web of trust mechanism, such as automatically retrieving the list of identities marked GOOD by each identity you marked GOOD, and marking them OBSERVE. I'm not comfortable about how much personal information is revealed by publishing a list of the identities each identity trusts - it would make lurking difficult, for example - but I suppose that has to be balanced against the need to integrate new users as quickly as possible before their patience runs out. Cheers, Michael _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
