On Friday, November 25, 2011 11:12:44 Steve Snyder wrote:
It's been suggested that perhaps I mis-interpreted what I was told about establishing the relay in the UK. I specified a host name that reflected the use of the server as a Tor relay, and this was the response I got:
"When it came to filling out the hostname for your VPS, the name struck me. I need to make you aware that we cannot allow anonymous tunneling of traffic through our servers. If it's for your own personal use that's fine, even if it's for the public it's fine so long as records are kept and are disclosed if presented with a legal requirement under UK Law."
They are confusing their own Terms of Service with UK law. Ask for a pointer to the law that makes a proxy server illegal. The UK government uses Tor for their own agents to find criminals and stay anonymous. I suspect this person or VPS provider is simply misinformed.