Re: Email Web of Trust - Problem Statement

Mark Baugher <[email protected]> wrote:
> How about a MIB definition:  Let's say the peers who make up the "web of trust"
> run the same protocol for authorizing incoming mail.  The protocol, whatever
> it is, has counters for messages that are received but rejected as junk,
> along with the address or name associated with the source.  The peers trust
> each other to maintain these counters according to the MIB specification.

  That sounds reasonable, with one implementation problem: People
don't trust SNMP.  Exporting SNMP to the world may make people cringe.

  On the other hand, if one company collates that information and
exports it, that may not be a problem...

  Alan DeKok.