the O(N^2) problem

Mon Apr 14 05:27:46 UTC 2008

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:

> Now I'm lost again.  You've mixed so many different metaphors from
> interdomain routing to distance-vector computaton to store-and-forward
> that I simply don't understand what you are proposing or how one
> could begin to approach implementing it or what problem you seem
> to think it solves (although it sort of seems like you're wanting to attack
> the trustworthiness of email to battle SPAM through some mechanism
> that depends only on the level of trust for the (source, arrival path)
> tuple from whence it came.

Looks like what various people in the industry call a "reputation system"