Hello List, I first heard from TOR after the leaks of snowden and started to read a lot about TOR but never used it - and I still don't use it (I just don't have the need for it). Before christmas I started a tor relay on my dedicated server. To be clear: Just a normal middle relay with 100 MBit/s advertised and 200 MBit/s burst. While the holidays more and more traffic was going over the network card. After a week I decided to increase the speed to 200 MBit/s advertised bandwidth. A day later I took the reduced exit rules and kicked out some more ports. So now I'm running an exit relay. The past days I made some short tcpdump traces to find out what people use TOR for. Well, it's kind of sad. A short analyse of the hostnames gave me the result: 80% Porn, 10% site crawling, 5% Wordpress comment spam and 5% "human" traffic. I don't get why people use TOR for watching porn. Now I dived deeper into the TOR architecture. I read that now that I'm running an exit relay I'm not able to be a normal middle relay (please tell me if I'm wrong). Since I'm not willing to help people with my exit relay just to watch anonymous porn on the web, I would rather help the people inside the network stay anonymous and speedup the network itself - thus just running a normal relay. I'm aware that the porn traffic will still be running through the relay but also the "better"/wanted relay-to-relay traffic. Long story short: What type of relay helps the TOR project more? Exit-Relay or Middle-relay? Is it really the "job" from TOR to provide an exit to the normal internet ressources or should the focus be on hidden services? Thanks in advance for your comments/suggestions, Josef P.S.: I'm posting this to the normal tor-talk Mailinglist because I want to catch the opinion from the community and don't have a probleme with the relay software itself.
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