Hello Pat, Wednesday, August 10, 2005, 7:18:38 PM, you wrote: PF> Dunno if this helps or not, but this is what it says on the Gentoo Web Site PF> (announcement page, linked below): PF> "Tor network servers banned on the Forums PF> The Tor Network is an anonymous Internet communication system that uses a PF> distributed network of servers to bounce communications around. People were PF> able to use tor to browse the Gentoo Forums until some malicious users PF> started abusing the forums. As you might have already guessed, using tor PF> hides your IP address, so it works similarly to a kind of anonymous posting. PF> The gentoo forums staff, due to this abusive use of tor servers, has decided PF> to ban all tor servers that have an exit policy allowing connections to PF> forums.gentoo.org on ports 80 (HTTP) and/or 443 (HTTPS). We are concerned PF> that our users might want to preserve their anonymity, however there doesn't PF> seem to be a good technical or legitimate reason to use tor on the Gentoo PF> Forums. PF> In an effort to purge the abuse of the Tor Network generating the least PF> problem to our users, only Tor servers with an exit to forums.gentoo.org on PF> the ports above stated will be banned. If they have those exits removed, PF> they'll automatically be unbanned. Please, notice that this process of PF> retrieving the list of Tor servers is performed automatically and that it PF> might take a while to have the ban-list synced." Chuckle, how about making the list of Tor servers a hidden service only available to registered and active Tor server operators? :) The old saying, if you can't beat them, join them? Sorry, I couldn't help myself. Or, only list the country of the server and not the IP address. Seems to me, I would only be interested in the country the server was operating from if I wanted to route through all foreign servers. -- Best regards, Roadburner mailto:roadburner@xxxxxxxxxxx
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