[Gllug] Spam

[Richard Jones]

On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 04:00:16PM +0100, t.clarke wrote:
> Maybe one day a system of being able to universally check the sender
> is genuine will be in place.  At the present, it would seem we are a
> long way off from that!

Perhaps some sort of distributed reputation system for IP addresses.
It would be useful for clearing up wiki spam too -- all the wiki spam
I see is currently _not_ automated.  Poses some very interesting and
difficult problems making such a reputation system bullet proof from
being itself spammed.

Rich.

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