Re: Off topic: developers/project manager needed

[Chuck Yerkes <chuck+obsd@2004.snew.com>]

This varies from vipul's razor how?


Quoting Gary (vex555@gmx.net):
> Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 03:45:41 -0800
> From: Gary <vex555@gmx.net>
> To: misc@openbsd.com
> Subject: Off topic: developers/project manager needed
> 
> Please forgive this post to the list but I'm assuming that a) this is a
> subject of great interest to many of you and b) that OpenBSD gurus are
> amongst the top echelon of developers/network admins out there.
> 
> I've neglected this for a long time but I need to get it moving - its 
> a sourceforge project called karmic to deal with spam by attacking the
> very business model that sustains it (profit / bandwidth costs) and by
> providing a distributed, mass moderated blacklist of URL's and spam
> e-mails (using a fingerprinting algorithm). 
> 
> The goal of the project will is to create a distributed database of
> spam content and URLs over a peer-to-peer network (preferably - for
> robustness). The database will feature mass moderation by anyone running
> the software and thus enable individual filter threshold settings for
> mail and web proxies.
> 
> It will also feature a screen-saver type client which will display the
> latest database entires and can be set (at the users preference) to
> crawl them in the background sending the results to /dev/null. It could
> also display stats on the ever slowing ping responses of those sites and
> thus provide some entertainment.
> 
> More details at http://karmic.sourceforge.net
> thx, Gary