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Re: Recent Abuse compalints...



On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 11:53:18AM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote:

| And a complaint from www.medzilla.com relateded to spam bots run amok
| on their site.  This has resulted in all TOR exit nodes being blocked
| at their firewall.  I don't know that they fully understand the way
| the system works and are probably blocking middle-man  nodes as well
| right now.
| 
| I'll try and keep the conversation going and at least get them down to
| only blocking nodes that exit on port 80, would anyone from the devel
| team like me to forward their contact info to the fellow I'm talking
| with?

Do you know how flexible their firewall is?  Could they block access
to their posting CGIs?  Anonymous access to medical information is
personally and socially valuable, and read-only access seems like a
decent comprimise, once they calm down.

Adam