<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/18/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Matthew Simpson</b> <<a href="mailto:matthew@txlink.net">matthew@txlink.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
To address the issue about the Firefox browser, I develop [if you want<br>to call it that, lol] the sites on Opera so it should work fine in<br>Firefox. Nothing fancy at all just HTML 4.0 forms, etc. The other<br>poster hit the nail on the head, it was out of DIDs. I just loaded
<br>another 200 random dids in so we'll see how long those last.<br><br>I'm going to add code to confirm the email addresses that people signed<br>up for to avoid "DID hogging" and also going to reclaim DIDs that go
<br>totally unused for more than probably a 30 day period to keep DIDs from<br>going stale and unused.<br><br>And about the free outgoing, I don't want people to jump through hoops<br>at all. That's not what this was supposed to be about. I don't want
<br>people to have to use something like Paypal either, that's irritating<br>and a lot of people used the service from out of the country [like some<br>US Marines calling home from Iraq] that couldn't use paypal anyway.<br>
<br>I do like the Web of Trust idea. Maybe I'll do it google style and give<br>out some invites to people [say 5] and then those 5 people will get a<br>couple invites, and so on. Each invite would point back to the person
<br>who gave it so if I trust Bob and he trusts Sam who trusts Sue but Sue<br>turns out to be an abuser, I can see that Sam give it to Sue and revoke<br>Sue's account and make her "untrustworthy" to the system [blacklisted].
<br> If Sam invites several people that all end up black listing, than<br>Sam's ability to get invites will get removed [but he would not get<br>blacklisted since he is not abusing, just passing out invites to<br>abusers]. This would have to all be done by machine to scale ... not
<br>sure I have the time to put the code together but if it worked it might<br>be useful for other free services out there.<br><br>What do you guys think?<br><br>yours,<br>matthew</blockquote><div><br>
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I like it a lot. I went to wikipedia and read up on 'web of trust', and 'reputation'. Very interesting reading.<br>
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John<br>
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