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Gordon Joly wrote:
At 13:45 -0400 27/8/06, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On 8/27/06, Kelly Martin
<kelly.lynn.martin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
[snip]
> Anonymous readers of an article will be displayed the most
> recent
> revision of that article which has been marked by a trusted
> user as
> being free of vandalism.
[snip]
Of course, 'Trusted user' is a complicated issue in and of itself.
Web of trust is the basis of PGP, surely?
http://www.rubin.ch/pgp/weboftrust.en.html
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/F.AbdulRahman/docs/pgptrust.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust
Good enough then?
Someone will shoot me for suggesting it, but there's an
"attack-resistant" trust metric available (primarily used by
Advogato).
We have an article at
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_resistant_trust_metric>.
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So, this system is classfull rather than classless.