[tor-relays] ExitPolicy reject *:* ships commented out?

[Gordon Morehouse]

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The friend was upgrading from Tor 0.2.3.x to Tor 0.2.4.16-rc.  I do
not know whether he used a tarball but I think it likely he used the
Tor 'experimental' repos as his VPS is Debian-family, and he said "I
couldn't keep the old config"; thus debconf likely presented him with
a choice, he accepted the new config, edited as far down as he needed
to turn relaying on, and that's it.

Since the default exit policy is for a relay to be an exit (without,
even, the benefit of ReducedExitPolicy), his VPS was shut down in
about a day as he'd unknowingly turned himself into an exit node.

Partial user error, and partial - as he would argue and so would I -
bad defaults.  This guy is a software engineer who had a derp moment.
 I wonder how many less tech-savvy users may make the same mistake and
then have a bad time and never relay again (or be subject to law
enforcement action, particularly in hostile countries).

David Carlson:
> I am confused by this thread.  In fact, the specific downloaded
> file that the OP is referring to is not named, nor is it mentioned
> whether it was installed 'as-is' or with a modified configuration.
>  Then a follow-up message refers to TBB, which is not even a relay
> package. David C

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