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Re: [tor-dev] . tor-roster's geo diversity badge and self-ref relays


On 13 Sep 2015, at 18:18, Sean Saito <saitosean@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>"No Self-Referencing Relays"

>I'm not sure what exactly you mean by that but I assume it is a MyFamily

>config where a relay includes his own fingerprint. Why does that hurt?

>The unnecessary descriptor space/bw?

 

This is something Virgil wanted because he thought self-connections were ugly.  If the

penalizing of self-connections is found to be uglier than the self-connections themselves, we're

both fine with removing it.


Can this be downgraded to an informational message? (or eliminated entirely?)

Penalties can be quite discouraging, particularly for minor configuration variants.

Tim

Tim Wilson-Brown (teor)

teor2345 at gmail dot com
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