From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: GroupLens (gnus-gl.el)
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 01:24:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3fzr78r7l.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d9y94zfsbz.fsf@bose.cs.umn.edu>
Raja R Harinath <harinath@cs.umn.edu> writes:
> But, GroupLens is not supposed to be a moderation system. It is
> supposed to find people who appear to have opinions similar to yours,
> and weights the score based on that "closeness" criterion.
>
> It is thus less likely to be poisoned -- unless you are poisonous too :-)
It's a more subtle tool than, er, "flat" moderation, but it's still
pretty easy to poison (unless you use some kind of authorization
system, or keep it "in the family"). Hacking up a system that would
inject a gazillion fake profiles that would make it likely that your
important MAKE VIAGRA NOW messages rate highly isn't particularly
difficult. Probably.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-02 0:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-27 18:59 Ted Zlatanov
2003-01-28 22:11 ` three nnmaildir questions: naming, numbering, and splitting David Wuertele
2003-01-28 22:40 ` Paul Jarc
2003-01-28 23:26 ` David Wuertele
2003-01-29 0:31 ` Paul Jarc
2003-01-29 7:29 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-01 16:22 ` GroupLens (gnus-gl.el) Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-02-01 20:59 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-01 21:24 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-02-02 12:20 ` Alex Schroeder
2003-02-02 12:25 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-02-02 12:19 ` Alex Schroeder
2003-02-02 0:18 ` Raja R Harinath
2003-02-02 0:24 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2003-02-02 1:34 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-02-02 2:17 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-02-02 4:40 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-02-02 17:29 ` Raja R Harinath
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