Hi all,

I knew that starting this journey would be a wild ride where I would learn and experience a lot! But now that my first abuse complaints have appeared I feel a bit on edge while I reply to them, frantically checking my spelling dotting my I's and crossing my T's.

Will these emails always feel so scary to reply to? or do they start to feel just normal after a while? What was it all like in the beginning when you guys opened up your first exit?

Kind regards,

- Willmar

On 11/9/18 11:14 PM, DrNotThatEvil wrote:

That service was a godsend thanks Olaf, Thanks for all work, love and care!

-Willmar

On 11/9/18 8:00 PM, Ralph Seichter wrote:

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• starlight.2018q2@binnacle.cx:

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The operator of Blutmagie Torstatus, Olaf Selke has retired the service.

I'm sorry to hear that the service is no longer available. My thanks to Olaf for his long-time work!

-Ralph _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

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Let's hope my it's not gonna happen anytime soon.

Now I kinda regret that I didn't sign up for the "IT and legal" class at my school.

- willmar

On 11/10/18 12:33 AM, niftybunny wrote:

you are getting used to it.

modify the https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorAbuseTemplates%C2%A0tem... to your liking and send out the response.

just wait for your first subpoena :)

markus

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On 10. Nov 2018, at 00:26, DrNotThatEvil <relay@wilv.in mailto:relay@wilv.in> wrote:

Hi all,

I knew that starting this journey would be a wild ride where I would learn and experience a lot! But now that my first abuse complaints have appeared I feel a bit on edge while I reply to them, frantically checking my spelling dotting my I's and crossing my T's.

Will these emails always feel so scary to reply to? or do they start to feel just normal after a while? What was it all like in the beginning when you guys opened up your first exit?

Kind regards,

• Willmar

Am 09.11.2018 um 23:14 schrieb DrNotThatEvil:

That service was a godsend thanks Olaf, Thanks for all work, love and care!

thanx for all the flowers :-)

I took the ssl certificate expiration 11/06 as an occasion to discontinue the service. Actually behind the scenes everything is still running. The mysql db is fed with Tor live data. Only the Apache config prevents access. I'm just too lazy to renew the ssl certificate or to switch to letsencrypt and I declined offers sell the site.

regards Olaf

Hallo Olaf,

hat dir schon jemand für Blutmagie kostenloses hosting anzubieten? Ich habe genug freie Resourcen, wenn du von mir eine VM dafür haben möchtest. Die SSL-Zertifikate könnte man doch wunderbar per Let's Encrypt machen, oder nicht?

Viele Grüße, Matthias

On 2018-11-11 12:51, Olaf Selke wrote:

Am 09.11.2018 um 23:14 schrieb DrNotThatEvil:

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That service was a godsend thanks Olaf, Thanks for all work, love and care!

thanx for all the flowers :-)

I took the ssl certificate expiration 11/06 as an occasion to discontinue the service. Actually behind the scenes everything is still running. The mysql db is fed with Tor live data. Only the Apache config prevents access. I'm just too lazy to renew the ssl certificate or to switch to letsencrypt and I declined offers sell the site.

regards Olaf _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 9:17 AM starlight.2018q2@binnacle.cx wrote:

At Sun Nov 11 11:51:36 UTC 2018 Olaf Selke olaf.selke at blutmagie.de wrote

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thanx for all the flowers :-)

I took the ssl certificate expiration 11/06 as an occasion to discontinue the service. Actually behind the scenes everything is still running. The mysql db is fed with Tor live data. Only the Apache config prevents access. I'm just too lazy to renew the ssl certificate or to switch to letsencrypt and I declined offers sell the site.

I don't think anyone would be bothered if you put an ad-service on the page to generate some revenue.

Please don't. Ad services are far too often used to distribute malware. Some kind of community-funding jar would be much safer. (Patreon, ko.fi, etc).

zw

Wed Nov 14 14:55:52 UTC 2018 Olaf Selke olaf.selke at blutmagie.de wrote:

Am 14.11.2018 um 15:20 schrieb Zack Weinberg:

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Ad services are far too often used to distribute malware.

The worst of this is past, mostly solved. Folks who come up with these target high volume sites to pay for the huge investment in time to develop exploits and game past ad-service defenses. Survival rate a few of days in the wild. Salad days for the bad guys are gone.

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Some kind of community-funding jar would be much safer. (Patreon, ko.fi, etc).

no doubt, but it's fair and reasonable for site operators to generate some ad revenue; multirbl.valli.org did it for ages though he seems to have stopped, perhaps for the reason mentioned below

https://torstatus.blutmagie.de is resurrected :-) Today I spend the amount of 17 USD for a new ssl certificate. Next step is to negotiate more ram with my Russian provider. 2 GB working set became too small for the mysql db and about 30-50 concurrent Apache processes.

Fabulous, thank you!

(perhaps Nginx could swap in place of Apache and use less memory)

regarding ads:

I would have to pay income tax for revenues generated with ad services. No kidding! German tax offices are Legion. They do not forgive. They do not forget.

A practical concern, interesting they chase small web sites though I suppose the tax offices have it automated. Does a threshold minimum for filing exist? Perhaps a test to see if worth the trouble to fill out forms and write checks. I'd guess ad services generate helpful reports for that.

By the way, what is wrong with https://torstatus.rueckgr.at? Basically this site provides the same information as blutmagie.

Blutmagie is more polished in the details, has kept up with Tor changes. I like especially that bandwidth numbers are actual utilization rather than observed maximum. Individual relay page graphs work. Only issue is page rendering a bit slow, probably due to dynamic calculation of row height. Not a web dev but I am willing to look at figuring out how to correct that and contribute a change.