Re: Re[2]: [JDEV] Kid-safe messaging: [was buddy icons]
Interesting, I think I'd like to implement something along these lines, but needs pinning down... One big vague architectural solution is to establish some kind of "web of trust" where transitive buddyhood ([EMAIL PROTECTED] is unknown to me but is on one of my buddy's buddy lists) is used as a heuristic to guess that someone is legit and therefore not block their messages. The problem is how to trawl through the directed graph of buddy lists without privacy concerns coming up, since I don't necessarily want all my buddies knowing who else is on my buddy list. Here's a quick thought: Allow each user to keep a private server-side list that rates other users positively or negatively. Other users can then send special messages to your server to query for your rating of a single other user. By sending such a query to your whole buddy list, you can compute an aggregate ranking that gives you an idea of whether or not to trust or block some unknown user. Should be quite simple to implement... Jens Is anyone else is interested in this? Otherwise Jens I'll mail you off list when I have something to say -:) ___ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
RE: Re[2]: [JDEV] Kid-safe messaging: [was buddy icons]
How about having a way for a client to report a message as spam, it could send back an iq with the message content and sender, then if one user or message is reported many times as spam it will start to be blocked, have to be thought out well so as to not allow loop holes for abuse. I like the idea. But what's to stop that user from just creating a new JID? We might just see a lot of one-time JIDs pop up as happens with email spam now. Todd. ___ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
Re: Re[2]: [JDEV] Kid-safe messaging: [was buddy icons]
On Wednesday, April 11, 2001, at 01:17 PM, Todd Bradley wrote: I like the idea. But what's to stop that user from just creating a new JID? We might just see a lot of one-time JIDs pop up as happens with email spam now. If Jabber really takes off, someone will create a special Jabber server for spammers, which just sends every message from a different randomized fake JID. Although at least, with server-server dialback, they won't be able to fake the server name on their messages (right?) For this and other reasons I would rather see trust as "opt-in", i.e. people will be blocked unless there is a reason to consider them trustworthy. Or if not blocked completely, then at least downgraded in importance, i.e. messages from them don't pop up on your screen but just get added to a list in a window that you can open once in a while and look through. Sort of like the "Junk?" mailbox that my mail rules throw suspicious messages into. Jens
