-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Date: Fri Mar 22 21:25:47 CST 1996 To: cypherpunks@toad.com Subject: Please criticize PGP-based robomoderator Hello, Today UVV's announced that a new group, soc.culture.russian.moderated, was voted into existence. If all goes well, it should be newgrouped soon. For this group, I wrote a robomoderator program that does the following: 1) Enforces posting style required by the charter 2) Checks PGP signatures on incoming messages and prevents some types of forgeries 3) Implement secure (PGP-based) exchange between robomoderator program and human moderators, for messages requiring their approval 4) Black lists, white lists, and lists of suspicious words (Cypherpunks may imagine that ``medusa'' would be a suspicious word for this list) 5) Signs (with Greg Rose's PMApp) approved articles to prevent posting articles with forged approval 6) supports appeals, moderators' mailing list, and more. A specification for the robomoderator is on my home page at http://www.algebra.com/~ichudov/usenet/scrm/robomod/robomod.html and your criticisms and suggestions are more than welcome. For security reasons, we cannot post the code yet. We'll do it after I systematically proofread it to make sure that it is secure. Robomoderator is written in perl and sh, with some C code. It is working, but there are sopme minor things to do (they are listed in the TODO list on my WWW Page). Thanks to Dr. Dimitri Vulis for several good suggestions that I implemented. - Igor. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMVNx8sJFmFyXKPzRAQEgVwP+Il58rOpbWtlC0MW4tPrYEnuF9JC5OJET VhaWud9lYzMDo9sdiBBmmgPqs5n3/lPpvxuNX4oCNbooP/U7SE8iqqOlcEdRDI3d KCSS8jol+T+VQGyVg8GkNrjSzSrfBrnka/CYMCXzKPGCFKcj5QiO1ufuBlhcxNsa glTt8xf5BrY= =xUgQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----