[freenet-dev] How to fix Frost

[Edgar Friendly]

Michael Rogers wrote:
> Matthew Toseland wrote:
>> In which case, 90%+ of newbies won't use Frost. We need to ship some known 
>> good identities, and use the web of trust to pick the rest up. Obviously the 
>> newbie should be able to turn this off.
> 
> Sounds like a good solution, as long as those people stay active.
> 
I think that people would understand if we told them that they needed to
pick who to trust and who not to trust.  Besides, if we really do have a
good solution for post-spam, spammers won't spend much energy spamming
because of lack of return.  Email spam will continue forever because of
the people who actually buy generic v!@gra and penny stocks.  I expect
frost spam to have similarities to wikipedia spam.  There's a lot of
people who could do it, but since people catch it quickly, it lacks
impact, so not much reason to do it, so people don't do it long.

>> Why? If you lurk you're invisible, you don't publish anything, surely?
> 
> You publish a list of people you've marked GOOD, which reveals whose
> posts you're reading. But I suppose you could get round it by marking
> people OBSERVE if you didn't want to reveal that you were reading their
> posts.
> 
Maybe an option (off by default) to not publish trust information?  That
way, people who want to lurk can do so.  As for per-group
publish/no-publish, Maybe it would work well to have group-subscriptions
be per-local-identity.  So you'd have different groups for your
different pseudonyms, and the lurker wouldn't publish trust info.

E.