Re: [foaf-dev] Rapportive
Dan Brickley <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Melvin Carvalho <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8 November 2010 13:32, Dan Brickley <[email protected]> wrote: >> Anything that helps people cope with giant email inboxes by putting >> faces to names, and conversations in context, has to be worth >> investigating. > > One thing I've noticed about rapportive is: most of the contacts I > see have some kind of profiles. But spammers generally have none. > Could an linked data version of this be a potential spam filter? Yes, I think so. I used to run a big aggregated 'whitelist' of known mailboxes (hashed), and that kinda helped. But it was a lot to maintain, and there are issues with simplistic hashes. What it won't do directly is help with faked mail, eg. I could send something pretending to be from melvincarvalho-Re5JQEeQqe9fmgfxC/sS/[email protected] But there are other techniques that are cutting down on this - eg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Policy_Framework It would be nice not to depend upon a single aggregate of public foaf/xfn data. So Google SGAPI is great, but having some others speak a similar API would be ... reassuring. cheers, Dan