Re: Email Web of Trust - some actual experience

Alan DeKok wrote:
> Yakov Shafranovich <[email protected]> wrote:
...
>>Assuming that they will be used for whitelisting. I can see such web 
>>being used for blacklisting as well - if you are not in it, then we will 
>>not accept email from you.
> 
> 
>   That's a local decision, and is always possible.
> 
>   However, the design of the system should be such that people are
> encouraged to make better decisions than simple rejection.
> 
>   Given the political history of blacklists, any new system which
> isn't designed to be immune to political attacks will be sure to fail.
> 

That's exactly what I driving at - this is one issue we need to keep in 
sight when discussing this. I don't really see a realistic way to avoid 
the political problems - there will always be someone out there using 
the data improperly. The question is how to reduce the risk.

Yakov