On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 14:10 +0300, ivvmm wrote: > Roger Dingledine wrote: > > > > But that said, you probably won't see much traffic on your ORPort > > either, yet, since you're a bridge. At this point, bridges are a future > > step on the "blocking resistance" arms race: > > https://svn.torproject.org/svn/tor/trunk/doc/design-paper/blocking.html > > and no country has gotten that far on the arms race yet. So they're more > > a strategy that we have in reserve for the time when we need it. > > > > Hope that helps, > > --Roger > > > > > > To sum it up, I'd better run a Bridge if really wanna help Tor project? > I am somewhat afraid of government, I realise that's a kind of paranoia > but it seems to be real in my country. So I mentioned only these lines > in torrc to use traffic: > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ExitPolicy accept *:80 > ExitPolicy accept *:443 > ExitPolicy reject *:* > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > So. It is better now to run a relay and a bridge in the long term? > Running a bridge is very useful, but only if people know about your bridge. It's more friend-to-friend than peer-to-peer. Running a relay is also very helpful, because it donates bandwidth. If you have friends in mainland China/Myanmar/whereever, then run a bridge and tell them about it. If you don't, you should probably just run a relay.
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