Re: How does TeS work?

Marc Perkel wrote:
> I think this is a fair question. How many reports does it take to get
> EFFector or any other newsletter labeled as spam? Can ONE person do it?

Yes. Currently, the report of a single person can make the confidence
value of a given message (body part) to be greater than 6 (which is
the current value of min_cf as published by the razor servers).

For this to happen the person reporting it to razor needs to have
enough trust for the razor system.

Similarly, the revoke of a single trusted person can make a given
message (i.e. body part) to be "removed" from razor database.

> What are the rules? How does this work? Or - is this all a secret?

The details are a secret, but apparently the following general rules apply:

* You gain trust by reporting messages which other people have
reported as well. The more spam you report which is also reported by
other people, the more trust you gain.

* You may lose trust if you revoke messages which a lot of other
people reported.

* You may also make people to lose their trust if you revoke messages
that they reported and you have a lot of trust.

* Every message which is reported is assigned a confidence value. This
value depends on the trust of the people who reported it and the trust
of the people who revoked it (if any).


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