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[or-cvs] clean up the spammer section



Update of /home2/or/cvsroot/website
In directory moria:/home/arma/work/onion/cvs/website

Modified Files:
	faq-abuse.html 
Log Message:
clean up the spammer section


Index: faq-abuse.html
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RCS file: /home2/or/cvsroot/website/faq-abuse.html,v
retrieving revision 1.5
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -d -r1.5 -r1.6
--- faq-abuse.html	7 Jun 2005 17:34:41 -0000	1.5
+++ faq-abuse.html	7 Jun 2005 18:01:17 -0000	1.6
@@ -105,17 +105,19 @@
 <a name="WhatAboutSpammers"></a>
 <h3>What about spammers?</h3>
 
-<p>The default Tor exit policy rejects all outgoing port 25 (SMTP)
-traffic. So sending spam mail through Tor isn't going to work. It's
-possible that some server operators will enable port 25 on their
-particular exit node, in which case only that computer will allow outgoing
-mails; but that individual could just set up an open mail relay too,
-independent of Tor. </p>
-
-<p>So far, no Tor server has enabled outgoing port 25 in his exit
-policy. </p>
+<p>The simple answer: The default Tor exit policy rejects all outgoing
+port 25 (SMTP) traffic. So sending spam mail through Tor isn't going to
+work. It's possible that some server operators will enable port 25 on
+their particular exit node, in which case only that computer will allow
+outgoing mails; but that individual could just set up an open mail relay
+too, independent of Tor. In short, Tor isn't useful for spammers, because
+nearly all Tor servers refuse to deliver it. </p>
 
-<p>In short, Tor isn't useful for spammers. </p>
+<p>The complex answer: Spammers are already doing great without Tor. They
+have armies of compromised computers that do their spamming. The added
+complexity of getting new software installed and configured, and doing
+Tor's public key operations, etc, makes it not economically worthwhile
+for them to use Tor. </p>
 
 <a name="ExitPolicies"></a>
 <h3>How do Tor exit policies work?</h3>