<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Incidentally yesterday I published a blog post featuring them and why their abuse e-mails are plain spam:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://blog.daknob.net/security-companies-and-abuse-e-mails/" class="">https://blog.daknob.net/security-companies-and-abuse-e-mails/</a></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 08 Feb 2017, at 06:00, Andrew Deason <<a href="mailto:adeason@dson.org" class="">adeason@dson.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">I run an exit node, and as such, I get abuse emails like this from time<br class="">to time:<br class=""><<a href="https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2015-October/007982.html" class="">https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2015-October/007982.html</a>><br class=""><br class="">Mostly I ignore them, but since their automated report contains the<br class="">sentence "Please feel free to send us your comments or responses.",<br class="">every so often I send something to complain about their practices. To my<br class="">surprise, apparently somebody does actually read these because today I<br class="">got a reply.<br class=""><br class="">I'm not reproducing the entire response here without permission (they<br class="">seem kinda touchy), but the person that replied did mention that they<br class="">have some kind of rbl "in beta" regarding tor exits. They seemed to<br class="">imply that doing so was quite a burden on them, though, which I don't<br class="">really understand (IME blocking tor exits is easy; intentionally so).<br class=""><br class="">I'm trying to keep the conversation going, but I was wondering if anyone<br class="">from the tor project has tried to reach out to them in some kind of<br class="">official way? I'm just some random guy, so I don't know if it would be<br class="">preferable for someone more knowledgeable, or with more access to tor<br class="">infrastructure, to be conversing with them. (e.g. teor)<br class=""><br class="">I assume some people will say this isn't even worth the effort; it's not<br class="">like it's hard to just ignore those reports. But it doesn't take much<br class="">effort to just try to talk ot them, and it perhaps helps to give tor a<br class="">reputation of cooperation and helpfulness.<br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">Andrew Deason<br class=""><a href="mailto:adeason@dson.org" class="">adeason@dson.org</a><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">tor-relays mailing list<br class="">tor-relays@lists.torproject.org<br class="">https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>