On Wednesday, June 8, 2022 3:39:55 AM CEST Sarthik Gupta wrote:
The tor-weather service will offer a plethora of notifications options for the relays.
If you program something new, see if you can use the old code: https://github.com/thingless/torweather As far as I know, nusenu is also building something new. I don't know if he has already done something. He'll read this and get in touch.
;-) dream: someone resuscitates OnionTip.com or TorTip.com
These include, the node being down, running on EOL/Outdated version, losing a flag, ranking in top 20/50/100, etc. These notifications can be subscribed & customized by the relay operators to fit their needs using a web-frontend.
Please not 'losing a flag' This confuses people and encourages even more people not to update their relays. Or like at the moment: 2 Authority voting running relays offline & flags come and go. Then this list is flooded with mails.
Folks interested in the project can refer this https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2022-May/014734.html thread in the tor-dev mailing list for regular updates. Suggestions are always welcomed! Please reach out to us in irc (#tor-dev) for any ideas, questions, or suggestions you might have.
Unfortunately, comments are not allowed in: https://gitlab.torproject.org/sarthikg/tor-weather/-/wikis/Proposal
Cons: The email provided in the ContactInfo is obfuscated in most of the cases as they should be according to the torrc documentation. Hence this information cannot be relied upon.
Please replace the link to the outdated jessie manpage use stable 'bullseye' or https://manpages.debian.org/main/tor/torrc.5.en.html
You _MAY_ want to obscure is in the torrc not _SHOULD_ And especially in the last few weeks, several Tor Dev's have asked: - DO NOT obfuscate your contact information! Maintainers already burn a lot of time trying to decipher obfuscated contact info!
Every reasonable email provider has spamassassin and amavisd-new running. We should tell people to use the header: 'X-Spam-Level: YES'