RE: suggestion for 'is my installation of tor working?' page

[Wesley Kenzie <wkenzie@xxxxxxx>]

I've got an initial version up now at http://www.showmyip.com/torstatus/ -
feedback welcome!  More content and links to come!

. . .
Wesley 


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-or-talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-or-talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Robert Hogan
Sent: February 1, 2007 1:48 PM
To: or-talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: suggestion for 'is my installation of tor working?' page


On Thursday 21 December 2006 18:36, Robert Hogan wrote:
> On Thursday 21 December 2006 05:19, you wrote:
> > Good idea.  We will work on getting a page available on showmyip.com 
> > to do this - maybe something like http://www.showmyip.com/torstatus/ 
> > with just the relevant data for new Tor users.
> >
> > . . .
> > Wesley Kenzie
> > WebMaster
> > http://www.showmyip.com/
> > http://www.privacy-ecosystem.com/
>
> Sounds great, looking forward to it!
>
> I'll direct TorK users to it once it's up and running.
>

Has anyone had any further thoughts on this?

Wesley, have you thought of creating a chopped-down version of showmyip.com 
that concentrates on the browser/OS properties (such as javascript) as well 
as displaying geographical info?


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-or-talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> > [mailto:owner-or-talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert Hogan
> > Sent: December 19, 2006 1:07 PM
> > To: or-talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: suggestion for 'is my installation of tor working?' page
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > http://lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/ipaddr.pl?tor=1
> > https://tns.nighteffect.com/
> > https://torstat.xenobite.eu/
> >
> > All of the above provide useful information for the first-time tor 
> > user. But
> >
> > the last two are only really meaningful to initates (and probably 
> > confusing to everyone else), while the first is reassuring but could 
> > really offer a little more.
> >
> > What is needed (IMVHO) is a page that confirms you are using tor 
> > successfully, but also introduces you to the other services that tor 
> > offers and also some advice for the tor debutante. A sort of 
> > official or unofficial 'welcome to the tor network' page. This could 
> > be linked to in the FAQ/INSTALL and used by
> > controllers/front-ends.
> >
> > Would the maintainers of any of the above be interested in providing 
> > such a thing? Given that the heavy lifting has already been done on 
> > all of the above, it would be very trivial to create. Would there be 
> > an appetite for such a thing on the tor homepage itself?
> >
> > Suggestions for content:
> >
> > * A warm greeting!
> > * Top Five things all tor users should know
> > * Appeal for users to run servers and link to how-to
> > * An introduction to some hidden services
> >
> > Anyway, just a thought...
> >
> > Robert

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