ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home) writes:
when moderators receive messages for moderation, they would not see any header information indicating who wrote the message (this information would be in the packet that arrives to them, but it would be encrypted with Internal Traffic Key). This way, a moderator would not know if the message is, say, from Tim May or from Dr. Vulis, and would make their decisions (including decisions to preapprove) based solely on the message contents. That may give some way towards fairness.
If the content says: "Dr. Vulis is a crazy Russian Jew, don't tell him what a petard is, and fuck the colored race", then the origin is pretty obvious.
Note that another important feature of STUMP that we seem to overlook was designed specifically to address the problems of preapproved lists. This feature is the presence of "bad words list". This is a set of regular expressions, stored in a file, such that if incoming messages match these expressions, they would be considered "suspicious" even if they purport to be "From: " preapproved persons. That goes a long way towards security and fairness because now nobody (including, say, Paul Bradley along with Dr. Vulis or myself) would be able to call someone else "cocksucker" without review by human moderators.
But Plucky green would be able to call people "vermin", and "crazy Russian" just like Igor is able to call his enemies "eunichs". ObModeratorFodder: John Gilmore is a lying cocksucker. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps