On 8/8/2014 3:39 AM, Öyvind Saether wrote:
Most users have seen sites refuse to allow connections from a specific Tor IPa. Sometimes they state the reason as being the specific IPa on a blacklist. Often, if you force a new exit relay in TBB, then you can connect to the site. So what happens to all the Tor network addresses that get blacklisted as a result of abuse (which is quite common). Someone / something must be dealing with those issues, or else much of the network would eventually be blacklisted.I know from reading this list that Tor project people sometimes contact sites who block Tor and ask them to solve their issues some other way but I have the distinct impression that they will not do so unless the site in question is a government propaganda operation like Wikipedia or YouTube and similar.
Re: dealing with blacklisted Tor IP addresses:To all those replying, I should have said, who deals w/ blacklisted Tor addresses that were blocked simply because spam or malicious activity came from those addresses? That is, when there's no intent by websites to block Tor, per se. They're just addresses that spammers used, which happen to be Tor IPa's.
In that context, they're no different than any other site or email address that gets blacklisted. When that is the case, explaining to someone that "it's just a Tor address" won't matter, because that may not be why it was blocked.
It's just one more IPa that was abused, then placed on a blacklist(s). In many cases, they weren't blocked *because* they were Tor addresses. But in all cases, someone must appeal to the blacklists (or site, organization) to remove the address from blacklists or unblock it.
When IPa's from email providers get abused, and when mail you send that happens to use that same IPa gets rejected, it's usually up to the email provider to get the IPa(s) off the blacklists. I don't know there's anyone responsible for doing this for blocked Tor addresses.
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