Gentoo's response on them blocking access to their forums via Tor

[Evert]

How about contacting them via the forums at www.gmane.org?   8-)

  Evert


S K wrote:

>So, they still won't differentiate between browsing
>forums and posting on them. 
>
>As for "technical or legitimate reason[10]", since I
>can't seem to reach the website (without Tor) this may
>have to been discussed, what about a situation where I
>as a developer or an advanced user of Gentoo have a
>fundamentally different opinion on a core issue from
>some demigod core developer of Gentoo and who wants to
>silence me or worse identify me? Don't want to state
>examples, but hasn't these things happened before?
>
>Maybe someone who is in touch with the Gentoo guys
>could ask them?
>
>SK
>
>
>
>--- Evert <evert at poboxes.info> wrote:
>
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>
>>Tor network servers banned on the Forums
>>----------------------------------------
>>
>>The Tor Network[7] is an anonymous Internet
>>communication system that uses
>>a distributed network of servers to bounce
>>communications around. People
>>were able to use tor to browse the Gentoo Forums[8]
>>until some malicious
>>users started abusing the forums. As you might have
>>already guessed, using
>>tor hides your IP address, so it works similarly to
>>a kind of anonymous
>>posting. The gentoo forums staff[9], due to this
>>abusive use of tor
>>servers, has decided to ban all tor servers that
>>have an exit policy
>>allowing connections to forums.gentoo.org on ports
>>80 (HTTP) and/or 443
>>(HTTPS). We are concerned that our users might want
>>to preserve their
>>anonymity, however there doesn't seem to be a good
>>technical or legitimate
>>reason[10] to use tor on the Gentoo Forums.
>>
>>  7. http://tor.eff.org
>>  8. http://forums.gentoo.org/
>>  9. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/forums/
>>  10.
>>http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-365013.html
>>
>>In an effort to purge the abuse of the Tor Network
>>generating the least
>>problem to our users, only Tor servers with an exit
>>to forums.gentoo.org
>>on the ports above stated will be banned. If they
>>have those exits
>>removed, they'll automatically be unbanned. Please,
>>notice that this
>>process of retrieving the list of Tor servers is
>>performed automatically
>>and that it might take a while to have the ban-list
>>synced.
>>
>>    
>>
>
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