Re: Email Web of Trust - some actual experience

John Levine wrote:

> Russ Nelson has been experimenting with a web of trust.
> 
> See http://web-o-trust.org/
> 
> It doesn't work very well.  Once you get past one level of
> friend-of-friend, the quality of the data plummets because different
> people have such different ideas about what a good mail sender is,
> ranging from "never sends anything even vaguely spam-like", to "gushes
> spam but there's a little real mail mixed in so I don't completely
> block it."
> 
> A scoring system like PGP uses might work better, but I'm sceptical
> that one could get a set of weightings consistent enough to be useful
> on a large scale.
> 

What about a simpler system - Site A states that site B is a known MTA. 
The parameters for what is considered a known MTA is defined by 
something like X days, X volume/time period, etc.

Yakov