[foaf-dev] FOAF-based whitelisting project

[Chris Prather]

On Mar 10, 2007, at 6:50 PM, R. Steven Rainwater wrote:

> On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 00:22 +0100, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
>> using FOAF-based trust networks for whitelisting email.
>> <...>
>> Importantly, I want to build it using the most basic data,
>> really identifying people, context-dependant trust
>
> You might want to take a look at mod_virgule, the software used to
> implement www.advogato.org and robots.net, and a few other community
> sites. It includes a trust metric system and trusted members of the
> community now have FOAF files as part of their profile.
>
> If nothing else, I'd be happy to modify mod_virgule to submit trusted
> user's FOAF data to whatever sort of repository your anti-spam system
> will use. Or is it more of a distributed system where you'll just  
> direct
> spamassassin to the source of the FOAF file?
>

Actually Advogato's trust metric stuff has influenced the stuff I am  
working on. Specifically: http://www.levien.com/free/tmetric-HOWTO.html

-Chris