On 28 Aug 2006, at 10:58, Gordon Joly wrote:
At 10:01 +0930 28/8/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:
Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig9154D8908F4E4A5B0799924A"
Gordon Joly wrote:
At 13:45 -0400 27/8/06, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On 8/27/06, Kelly Martin kelly.lynn.martin@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.
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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.
-- Alphax - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alphax Contributor to Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia "We make the internet not suck" - Jimbo Wales Public key: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alphax/OpenPGP
"Advogato performs certification to three different levels: Apprentice, Journeyer, and Master."
So, this system is classfull rather than classless.
The current system is already classful: some people don't have computers, some people are blocked etc.
It's also gaining considerable sclerosis. My discussions (and experiments) on ways to encourage the creation and viewing of free video content have come against considerable inertia (with the enthusiastic side only slightly ahead).