[tor-bugs] #6067 [Company]: Create a mailing list for automatic censorship-detection system reports

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#6067: Create a mailing list for automatic censorship-detection system reports
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 Reporter:  asn      |          Owner:  phobos
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 We've been running George Danezis' anomaly-based automatic censorship-
 detection system in yatei, but it's classified as BETA and its results are
 not shown in metrics.

 I tweaked its code a bit [0], and now it's capable of spitting out small
 daily reports of potential censorship. We can create a mailing list, and
 start putting those reports there, so that people interested in these
 things can keep an eye on them (without looking at a hundred metrics
 graphs every day).

 I think that the mailing list should function like `tor-consensus-health`
 does. That is, it should accept mails from yatei periodically, and people
 will be able to subscribe and receive the reports as mails. Web archive
 support would also be nice.

 I'm not sure if we should allow members to post, but I guess it doesn't
 make too much sense (although it might turn into a censorship-discussion
 hub where people can verify/deny or dig further into the automatic
 reports).

 WRT the name it could be [tor-automatic-censorship-reports] but I'm fine
 with anything. A disclaimer in the front page, saying that the data and
 reports are created automatically and might not represent real censorship
 events, could also be useful.

 Oh yeah, is there a reason on not doing this at all?

 Anything else I forgot?

 [0]: https://gitorious.org/metrics-tasks/metrics-
 tasks/commits/anomaly_detection_reports

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