macquigg at box67
Mar 5, 2007, 2:27 PM
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Re: Making spam scores public
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Hi Stuart,
Did I miss something, or do you mean Spamhaus? I can't find anything in a
quick Google search about Spamcop having any legal difficulties. I know
that Spamhaus was sued in US court, but that court has no jurisdiction over
a UK-based company. Spamhaus has a page on their website where they mock
lawyers who threaten to sue them.
It seems to me the real goal of our work on these reputation systems is to
provide a universal solution to the spam problem. Keeping the data private
means there is no fundamental difference between what you are doing and
what any large ISP or spam-appliance company does. How can you expect your
solution to be any better than what these private companies are doing?
I think the way to deal with threats of costly lawsuits is to set up the
company in a jurisdiction with more common sense in their legal system than
the USA. In the UK, for example, harassment lawsuits are minimized by
making the plaintiff pay the defendant's legal bills.
One other thing I am planning to do with our Registry, is make sure the
ratings are provided by independent companies. The Registry itself is
nothing but a clearinghouse, and should enjoy the same legal immunity as a
newspaper or Consumer Reports. If some rating service is put out of
business by a lawsuit, others will take its place.
-- Dave
At 04:49 PM 3/5/2007 -0500, you wrote:
>On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Graham Beneke wrote:
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> > Are there any public domain based reputation lists? Or would anyone be
> > interesting in working on setting one up?
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>Based on what happened to spamcop, there is a legal risk to any
>public blacklist. I wouldn't want to make my GOSSiP data public.
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