Re: [foaf-dev] Rapportive

On 9 November 2010 17:33, Dan Brickley <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

Perhaps a combination of SGAPI and the Sindice/Sig.ma API?

>
> cheers,
>
> Dan
>