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

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Are they afraid of trolling or spamming?
~Andrew

Gustavo Felisberto wrote:

>Evert wrote:
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>>Tor network servers banned on the Forums
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>>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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>I am a Gentoo Developer (I'm no demigod S.K. :) ) I maintain the tor
>ebuilds. I am a forum moderator (altough in the past months i have not
>used the forums much) And i followed this thread and the one in the
>moderators forum with interest. I can now assure the Tor users that work
>is being done to allow tor users read-only access to the forums (the
>GET/POST idea would make the use of search impossible).
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