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

[Bob Monfort]

Looking down the thread, I thinnk that forums.gentoo.org also wants https
blocked.
I've put "ExitPolicy reject 140.211.166.170/32" in my torrc to stop
everything...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-or-talk at freehaven.net
> [mailto:owner-or-talk at freehaven.net] On Behalf Of Brian C
> Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 10:27 AM
> To: or-talk at freehaven.net
> Subject: Re: Gentoo's response on them blocking access to
> their forums via Tor
>
> At Gentoo's LinuxWorld booth it was suggested that Gentoo
> would restore
> forum access to those tor server operators who altered their
> exit policy
> to disallow port 80 exits to the forums.gentoo.org IP
> address. That is,
> edit torrc and add the following line:
>
> ExitPolicy reject 140.211.166.170:80 # no exit to forums.gentoo.org
>
> Then restart or sighup your tor server.
>
> It's not clear to me if they are monitoring tor servers and will
> automatically allow access for those who implement such an exit policy
> or whether one needs to contact them after implementing such a change.
>
> Also, I'm not saying this is a good or bad policy, I'm just reporting
> what I heard.
>
> Brian
>
> Jonathan D. Proulx wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 11:48:17AM -0700, Sean wrote:
> >
> > :suggesting that Gentoo implement only user bans
> > :instead of IP bans?
> >
> > That seems more "The Right Thing" to me
> >
> > :Or is there another solution?
> >
> > yes, you can allow http GETs from anywhere but disallow
> POSTs from TOR exit
> > nodes this works out to allowing reading but not writing
> >
> > -Jon
> >
> >
> >