Re: Email Web of Trust - Problem Statement

The question that pops into my head when reading the problem statement is 
"trusted to do what or to not do what?"

Mark
At 12:50 PM 3/8/2004, Yakov Shafranovich wrote:
>I think it would be useful if we can clearly state the terms of the 
>problem which the "web of trust" is trying to solve. My try on it is as 
>follows:
>
>"One of the problems with spam is that when email is accepted there is no 
>way to figure out whether a given MTA is trusted or not. An "web of trust" 
>for email is proposed which will make a guess about trustworthiness of a 
>given MTA based on trust granted to it by other entities."
>
>(this can also be found at 
>http://www.shaftek.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Web_Of_Trust_For_Email/Problem_Statement)
>
>Yakov