What if a spammer get into the loop? and corrupts the shared whitelist? is this possible?
It can happen, but a spammer would have to do a lot of work for little payout. They would have to get someone to trust them to get "in the loop", while not knowing how many people will trust them -- and not knowing how quickly they may be omitted. One of the keys here is limiting how much recursion can be done. For example, if you trust our WOT file, and those of our customers, but none further -- then the only way a spammer can get their IP whitelisted on your server is if *we* trust them. If you think that the WOT system isn't going to attract spammers, you might not want to place any limits, so that if one of our customers trusts one of their customers that trusts a friend of theirs who trusts a spammer, you can always omit them.
Then, with Declude JunkMail, you can use negative weighting, which would make it even more difficult for a spammer to get their E-mail through with WOT.
So Let me summarize the way I think this works.
1) I setup a WOT file for my domain/server 2) I whitelist entries the WOT file 3) I link the WOT file to other trusted WOT files 4) The linked WOTs have whitelisted items and linked WOT files
I think that is right. :)
The WOT file on your website is essentially a list of your IPs and people you trust. Presumably, that's where you would start when creating a list. The list would contain your IPs, and would include the people you trust as well (and the people they trust, and so on), within the limits that are given.
Because of the "web" nature of this, there is no one specific starting point, except for your own WOT file. We're linked to most of the people who use Web-o-Trust, so by including us, you include them as well. However, at this point, nobody knows about *your* WOT file. So you let us know the URL for your WOT file, and we add you to ours. Since we're linked to most of the people who use Web-o-Trust, when we add you, most people will be whitelisting you as well (not everybody, though, because some may omit us or you, or may have recursion limits that prevent you from being seen).
-Scott
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