[tor-bugs] #5655 [BridgeDB]: Request to add gatech.edu to bridge email whitelist

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#5655: Request to add gatech.edu to bridge email whitelist
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 Reporter:  SamWhited              |          Owner:     
     Type:  task                   |         Status:  new
 Priority:  minor                  |      Milestone:     
Component:  BridgeDB               |        Version:     
 Keywords:  bridge, email, gatech  |         Parent:     
   Points:                         |   Actualpoints:     
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Changes (by SamWhited):

 * cc: sam@… (added)


Comment:

 Oops, forgot about this issue. Back now.

 Replying to [comment:2 arma]:
 > The goal here is to make sure that it's at least as hard to get an
 address at that domain as it is to get one at gmail.
 > ...
 > Can one gatech student/staff make an unlimited set of gatech addresses?
 If so, that's not so good.
 >

 The answer to this is "yes and no." Each student has a single address that
 can't be changed, and they can create unlimited alias' (but only one every
 30 days I think). The answer would be to just accept mail from the
 `mail.gatech.edu` domain (the one each student only gets one of). The
 alias' (@gatech.edu) don't matter.

 > Also, if the goal is to help people in China, China has already over-run
 this bridge distribution strategy (via gmail and yahoo accounts). So what
 you should really want is a separate distribution bucket, with its own
 bridges. Which sounds like a fine thing, except we don't have any
 developers working on this sort of thing.
 >
 > Maybe you want to pick up bridgedb and help?

 Good point (China was perhaps a bad example). I'd like to get involved
 with the Tor Project from a development standpoint; perhaps I'll take a
 look at this if I can find the time (not likely to happen at the moment;
 most of my OSS work has petered out lately, but you never know).

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