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[or-cvs] ask people to add socks4a support to gaim and xchat
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volunteer.html
Log Message:
ask people to add socks4a support to gaim and xchat
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<li>tsocks appears to be unmaintained: we have submitted several patches
with no response. Can somebody volunteer to start maintaining a new
tsocks branch? We'll help.</li>
+<li>Some popular clients that people use with Tor
+include <a href="http://gaim.sourceforge.net/">Gaim</a>
+and <a href="http://www.xchat.org/">xchat</a>. These
+programs support socks, but they don't support <a
+href="http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#SOCKSAndDNS">socks4a
+or socks5-with-remote-dns</a>. Please write a patch for them and submit
+it to the appropriate people. Let us know if you've written the patch
+but you're having trouble getting it accepted.</li>
<li>Right now the hidden service descriptors are being stored on just a few
directory servers. This is bad for privacy and bad for robustness. To get
more robustness, we're going to need to make hidden service descriptors