loaf

LOAF
Loaf is a way to share your address book without abandoning your privacy.
Yet another cool idea hatched on IRC by Joshua and Maciej with help from Peter and Dan. It's a distributed email hack that uses Bloom Filters to allow you to check whether mail is from people you know, partial strangers or complete strangers. Lots of obvious applications in spam filters and social networks. Good stuff.

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loaf from bwana.org
March 21, 2004 3:35 PM

i found this via irc on #joiito today: LOAF is a simple extension to email that lets you append your... Read More

Ya había hablado antes del potencial del software social para filtrar el spam. Ahora encuentro vía Many2Many una iniciativa concreta para llevarlo a la práctica: LOAF. Como explica Joi Ito se trata de compartir la agenda de direcci... Read More

Ya había hablado antes del potencial del software social para filtrar el spam. Ahora encuentro vía Many2Many una iniciativa concreta para llevarlo a la práctica: LOAF. Como explica Joi Ito se trata de compartir la agenda de direcci... Read More

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