Re: Single model or framework for reputation/trust

Alan DeKok wrote:

> Ed Gerck <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >         Reputation is a strong indicator of future behavior.
> >
> > Not in the real-world.
>
>   And this is where I think progress in this discussion stops.
>
>   For reasons why your statement is *grossly* incorrect, read any
> number of books on psychology, criminal profiling, or related topics.
> Reputation (i.e. public knowledge of past behavior) is a *very*
> important indicator of future behavior, and no amount of denials can
> change that.

I'm not going to continue to feed the troll. No one is talking about
solving human problems here. I am talking about email servers, SMTP,
software. Software has no psychological inertia. The purpose of this list
is to talk about automated processes to define reliance on automated
processes. Not to yep about psychology or criminal profiling.