[geeklog-devel] Google Summer of Code 2009: Geeklog

[Dirk Haun]

saurabh gupta wrote:

>> "Intelligence" or not, there should be a
>> way to port your Spam-X data over to another site
>
>Glad to know that you liked the idea. This is basically, an extension
>to the SWOT, where you can pass the intelligence and even the list of
>spammers.

Hmm, not so sure, actually. SWOT is intended to pass specific
information around, while the other idea was to allow transfer of _all_
the information from one site to another.

SWOT has some overhead (e.g. the hops count) that you wouldn't need if
you want to transfer your entire Spam-X data. And apart from the
overhead, it may even be a good idea to use a different format for the
"full" feed so that it can not be used as a SWOT feed.

For example, on one of my sites I'm blocking foreign IP addresses
aggressively. Get a spam from Comcast? Block them! The site's in German,
I don't care (there) about visitors[1] from the US. But that's all
specific to that one site and I certainly don't want anybody else to use
that information, even accidentally (because they think it was my real
SWOT feed).

So I guess what I'm trying to say is that such an "export" feed could
use a similar, but more compact format, that's clearly distinguishable
from a SWOT feed.

bye, Dirk

[1] actually: contributors - visitors could still browse the site, but
they wouldn't be able to post something


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