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Distributed xLists for Blogs
Posted February 11, 2005 – 4:41 pm by Yakov Shafranovich in Projects, Spam and EmailFollowing up on my earlier post about the use of email blacklists for blogs and Andy’s comments, Andy and myself started thinking about how to improve blacklists and whitelists for blogs. What we came up with is “Distributed xLists” - in black, white and shades of gray. Instead of following a centralized model, we chose a distributed peer to peer model that allows folks to publish, combine and redistribute blacklist/whitelist information while attaching their own opinion to it as well. Additionally, instead of plain white and black colors, our lists have weights allowing all kinds of shady stuff 
We hope that the trust in place between individuals combined with the flexbility of weighted opinions would fare better than the existing stuff.
For full details, you can read the HTML version of our Internet draft at Andy’s site (which should post soon to the IETF’s repository) and Andy’s comments. Now I just have to get around to updating my MT plugin.
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