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Spam Emails Received From This Mailing List
by Keifer Bly 16 Jun '18

16 Jun '18

Hello fellow relay operators, My apologies as this is not related to tor relays, however, there seems to be several spammers subscribed to the relay list. Every time I am involved in a discussion on this list, I receive 3-5 emails supposedly from girls wanting to meet up (for sex). The emails in question claim they are sent from email address tor-relays(a)lists.torproject.org (and always have the same email subject of the discussion I was involved in). I am somewhat in a trap as blocking them with spam filters would block all emails sent from the relay lists address. I am wondering what could be done about this (the email provider in question is Gmail). Thank you.

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metricsbot broken
by Paul Templeton 15 Jun '18

15 Jun '18

Who ever looks after the @metricsbot@botsin.space its stopped working... Paul 609662E824251C283164243846C035C803940378

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Bandwidth limits for Fallback Directory Mirror
by Cristian Consonni 15 Jun '18

15 Jun '18

Hi, due to the new DigitalOcean billing terms for bandwidth (see this other thread [1]), I have limited my relay bandwidth to be sure I will stay withing the limits: ``` RelayBandwidthRate 360 KB # Throttle traffic to 100KB/s (800Kbps) RelayBandwidthBurst 720 KB # But allow bursts up to 200KB/s (1600Kbps) ``` This is the relay: https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/1211AC1BBB8A1AF7CBA86BCE8689… The relay is also a Fallback Directory Mirror. I plan on keeping the relay running, but I was wondering if the new limits disqualify it or if they are a problem to let it be a fallback directory mirror. Thanks for you help. Cristian p.s.: I've also asked to DO if they could revert my last charges for the bandwidth, since they were quite steep and, frankly, unexpected. Let's see what they say... [1]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2018-April/015051.html

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FW: [#79576] Spam Emails Being Sent To TOR Relay Operators
by Keifer Bly 13 Jun '18

13 Jun '18

Hill all, I wanted to inform that I filed a complaint about the spam emails and this is the reply I got. Cheers. From: support(a)ioflood.com Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2018 7:43 PM To: Keifer Bly Cc: abuse(a)ioflood.com Subject: Re: [#79576] Spam Emails Being Sent To TOR Relay Operators Hi Keifer, I wanted to let you know that we've received your complaint regarding the spam emails and have forwarded it to the relevant customer so that they can resolved it. We do take these kinds of complaints seriously and will be following up with our customer to make sure the appropriate action is taken. In the meantime, if we can be of further assistance, please let me know. Thanks, -- Mabel To Input Output Flood, LLC We Love Servers web: www.ioflood.com email: mabel(a)ioflood.com Skype: ioflood_mabel_t twitter: @ioflood --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Tor Community Night / Relay operator night in Barcelona
by Colin Childs 11 Jun '18

11 Jun '18

Hello tor-relays, The Tor Project will be holding a community night / operator meet up after-hours at the 2018 Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS2018) in Barcelona! This will be happening on July 24th, at 6:30 PM in the PETS main room at Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. At 8:30PM we will be moving to a near-by Belgian bar called "Belchica" at Carrer de Villarroel, 60, 08011 for food and drink. There will be Vegan options available. This will be a great opportunity for the Tor relay operator community to meet and socialize. Within this event, there will be a dedicated relay operators meetup, which will begin at 7:00PM. We will discuss common issues operators face, potential solutions, as well as how we can all help to grow the relay operator community both locally and globally. We'll be on hand to answer questions and want to hear your feedback about the community, running relays, and what we can do to better support you. Full details on the event can be found on our blog at https://blog.torproject.org/meetup-tor-community-night-pets <https://blog.torproject.org/meetup-tor-community-night-pets> I look forward to hearing from you / seeing as many of you there as possible!

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Tor Network Safety Precautions
by Keifer Bly 11 Jun '18

11 Jun '18

Hello, So I am aware that the tor network has some built in safety mechanisms to protect tor users from attacks (such as from malicious tor relays, surveillance based attacks, etc). I am aware of some of tors safety mechanisms; I know that tor will automatically switch out which relays the tor browser is connecting through so as to prevent relays from being able to log traffic flowing through them. I am also aware that tor browser will automatically redirect to https secure websites to prevent end to end correlation attacks on users. I am wondering, what are the other safety mechanisms that tor network does to prevent against attacks? Besides keeping the tor relay software on OS up to date (which I am doing), what are the safety precautions relay operators should consider (the OS my relay is running off of is macOS High Sierra). Thank you.

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What is the different between Tor browser and Tor source code
by dave` dave 11 Jun '18

11 Jun '18

I know that i can download Tor Browser and use it as a regular browser with a touch of anonymity. but, if i want to change a few things in Tor i can change in .torrc file like the ExitNode, EntryNodeetc.. as i have here in Tor's manual: https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en but, if i want to change a way more series things i need to change it from the source code for example the numbers of Nodes-hop make 1 one or 8 hop's: https://www.torproject.org/download/download.html.en after changing the source code i and to install it: ./configure && make install more info: https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-unix.html.en after changing thw source code as i want it compiled without any error's(Ubuntu 16.04 VMware). after the compiling im in kind of in dead end don't know what to do. i want to use the source code that i edit as a i use in regular Tor-Browser can i do that? Thank you!

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Fwd: Tor Guard Relay
by Keifer Bly 10 Jun '18

10 Jun '18

This is one of the about 20 emails that have been received. Upon looking it looks like they are spoofing the [tor-relays] subject line. My apologies for the subject change but could not find a way to forward the emails without forwarding them from an old conversation. Thank you. (The subject this is in reference to is "Spam Emails Received From This Mailing List"). ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Becky Janet <beckyjanet335900(a)re.mexyst.com> Date: Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 7:48 PM Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Tor Guard Relay To: Keifer Bly <keifer.bly(a)gmail.com> first you need to trust someone to find real sex partner. So if you want to find real sex partner then you need to trust me. Always i'm telling you it's totally f r e e. Just connect with My Private Page <http://datingflirt.info/1stold> by submitting you mail, name, age etc. I'm assure you if it's ask any cc then no need to connect with me. So just trust and try. Trust Me & Try It Now NCTB ; After completing this task check your mail ,Automatically you will get my personal phone no in your mail within 5 min. Just check your mail (inbox/s p a m) and call me asap. I'm waiting for your cam

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Tor Guard Relay
by Keifer Bly 07 Jun '18

07 Jun '18

Hello, I have one question. I have been running my relay “torland” at http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/router_detail.php?FP=db1af6477bb276b6ea5e7213… For roughly 3 months now (I am unsure exactly how many days). While my relay is marked “fast” and “stable” currently, it has never been marked as a “guard” relay. I believe being a “guard” relay requires at least 10mb/s for relay speed, but am wondering, do I need to configure my torrc file to allow it to be used as a guard relay and are there any risks for doing this (like there are in running in exit relay)? Thank you.

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Why adding more Nodes won't help?
by dave` dave 06 Jun '18

06 Jun '18

Tor use 3 noes to enter the Tor-Network. why adding more nodes would not help my anonymity, as more nodes i have it need to be harder to track me. how can i add or subtract nodes.

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