Re: A vote of confidence for Sandy

[dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)]

ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home) writes:

> when moderators receive messages for moderation, they would not see any
> header information indicating who wrote the message (this information
> would be in the packet that arrives to them, but it would be encrypted
> with Internal Traffic Key). This way, a moderator would not know if the
> message is, say, from Tim May or from Dr. Vulis, and would make their
> decisions (including decisions to preapprove) based solely on the
> message contents. That may give some way towards fairness.

If the content says: "Dr. Vulis is a crazy Russian Jew, don't tell him what
a petard is, and fuck the colored race", then the origin is pretty obvious.

> Note that another important feature of STUMP that we seem to overlook was
> designed specifically to address the problems of preapproved lists. This
> feature is the presence of "bad words list". This is a set of regular
> expressions, stored in a file, such that if incoming messages match
> these expressions, they would be considered "suspicious" even if they
> purport to be "From: " preapproved persons. That goes a long way towards
> security and fairness because now nobody (including, say, Paul Bradley
> along with Dr. Vulis or myself) would be able to call someone else
> "cocksucker" without review by human moderators.

But Plucky green would be able to call people "vermin", and "crazy Russian"
just like Igor is able to call his enemies "eunichs".

ObModeratorFodder: John Gilmore is a lying cocksucker.

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