Already in (limited but growing) existance...
http://open-forge.org On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi all. Ive been fascinated with the problem of > signal to noise for as long as Ive been dinking > around in internet-cyberspace (now over a decade). > > oldtimers may recall that Ive had many various proposals > over the past on the list. > > it does seem that cypherpunks has succumbed to > significant entropy lately, surely partly related > to the "official" anarchist policies... > > in the spirit of the great cpunk accomplishments such > as remailers, encryption code etc, I would like to > talk to any gifted programmers that would like to > work on a very innovative prototype mailing list system that might > solve the signal-to-noise problem. this would be an > outstanding grad student project if you ask me. > experiments in collaborative filtering. > > the basic idea is related to something I call > a "self regulating network". its never really been > shown but the internet comes close. basically everyone > on the network has some say (vote) as to how it is governed. > this has some related ideas. > > http://www8.pair.com/mnajtiv/spam.html > > I have some ideas that wouldnt be too complicated to > code, basically tweaks to a majordomo system to > allow some extra out-of-bandwidth info that gets > passed around, something like a reputation system. > yes, I could code it myself, but I have other > projects, I want to contribute design time. > > Id like to run it "extreme programming style", getting > something up as fast as possible & making tweaks > & modifications while it runs. > > if it "clicks" I think it could have major implications. > for example there are now tens of thousands of yahoo > groups, its a multimillion dollar company. now imagine > approaching yahoo & selling them proven, tested technology > for egalitarian managing of mailing lists to maximize > signal to noise that doesnt require a moderator to babysit > the mailing list. > > on the other hand maybe there are no longer any > serious coders on this list.... a pity/shame if > that were the case. (this is not to imply that > coders would immediately agree to work on this haha) > > anyway just out of curiousity I'll post this. > plz email me if you're interested. > -- ____________________________________________________________________ There is less in this than meets the eye. Tellulah Bankhead [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------
