bryce@digicash.com wrote:
You know, Igor... (It has been a few months since I was hot on this idea, but hearing about your practical PGP successes has gotten me interested again...)
If you have a moderation bot for a Usenet group (and could it be pressed into service as a mailing list handler I wonder?), this
Yes, it can be. When I was writing it I had in mind that I want to write a general moderation bot that can be _applied_ to USENET. There is a script processApproved which is called when a message should get posted. If you replace the usenet version of processApproved to mailing list version, you will be done.
would be a nice tool to start with in order to implement full-fledged content/author ratings.
Well, STUMP is a generic moderation tool.
Anybody wanna hack a perl script or two to produce/consume content/author ratings for cypherpunks (it could surely use some!). We can use my dormant mailing list, c2punks@c2.net, as a parallel channel to transmit cypherpunk (and maybe other) ratings.
So, what you want is a tool that accepts "unmoderated" cpunks list, selects messages by authors with high ratings, and forwards only these into the "filtered" list? That's neat _if_ ratings are done by people whose tastes are similar to mine..
Let me know. We _could_ adopt the ridiculously simple NoCeM protocol, or the ever-mutating public key certificates being designed in a nearby mailing list, or some protocol of our own. (Shouldn't be too hard to come up with an implementable, useful protocol.)
????? - Igor.