Re: Finding Volunteers - Hardly likely!!!!

[phobos@xxxxxxxxxx]

On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 12:36:14AM -0400, roadburner@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote 1.1K bytes in 30 lines about:
:   Well, you are going to have a tough time finding them.

	I assume this is related to http://tinyurl.com/dvp54.

:   I am out. I'll have no more part in this project. Unsuspectingly I operated
:   a Tor node with the default settings. I thought I was doing a "good"
:   thing. I was acting in good faith.

	The default configuration is conservative.  

:   Then I found out my IP was blacklisted or whatever that means because
:   someone misused the service.

	You were most likely blacklisted because you ran a Tor node, not
	because anyone did anything through your exit node.  There are a
	few blacklists that simply block the IPs of every Tor node,
	regardless of exit policy.  

	The Tor Abuse FAQ, http://tor.eff.org/faq-abuse.html, clearly
	lays out the issues and such.

:   Then I was publicly criticized in APAS because I had a DHCP instead of
:   several static addresses, like one for Tor, and one for the re-mailer.

	This has nothing to do with Tor.  APAS is un-related to Tor and
	should be taken with lots of grains of salt.  Don't always
	believe what you read on the Internet.  Ask OR-TALK first.
	:)
: 
:   Your instructions say a Dynamic address is fine. So why does Alex D Joode
:   criticize me? In public? I followed your instructions to the T!!!!

	Ask Alex.  Ask OR-TALK for help, or follow the hints in
	http://tor.eff.org/support.html for getting help.
: 
:   I thought it was a good thing, now I realize I was wrong. I will have to
:   encourage any potential volunteers to think twice. Apparently you must
:   have a couple of static IP addresses to partake. At some point, it is not
:   worth the effort. I now decline to participate. Public humiliation is not
:   worth it.

	Tor is a neutral thing.  We believe it's good.  Others use it
	for bad.  Much like a highway, a kitchen knife, or a gun.  See
	http://tor.eff.org/faq-abuse.html#WhatAboutCriminals 

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phobos