[tor-bugs] #4923 [Tor Directory Authority]: badexiting (or rejecting) relays from certain bad countries by default

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#4923: badexiting (or rejecting) relays from certain bad countries by default
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 Reporter:  arma                     |          Owner:                  
     Type:  enhancement              |         Status:  new             
 Priority:  normal                   |      Milestone:  Tor: unspecified
Component:  Tor Directory Authority  |        Version:                  
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Comment(by arma):

 Replying to [comment:10 rransom]:
 > Replying to [comment:9 arma]:
 > > I think there's a strong argument for trying to do "C" in Vidalia
 instead, by looking at the IP address Tor thinks it's using and having
 another "are you sure?" layer to becoming a relay. Though that said, if we
 wanted to do it in Vidalia maybe we should have thought of that before
 giving everybody the software.
 >
 > The copy of Vidalia shipped in TBB should not support configuring the
 copy of Tor shipped in TBB to run as a relay.

 That would make me pretty sad. It may be the case that many users of TBB
 wouldn't make good relays, but that doesn't mean we should preemptively
 prevent all of them from even trying.

 I guess the main "feature" of this approach is that we don't sucker users
 into running a relay when the network would probably choose to ignore it
 anyway?

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