suggestion for 'is my installation of tor working?' page

[Robert Hogan]

On Thursday 21 December 2006 05:19, you wrote:
> Good idea.  We will work on getting a page available on showmyip.com to do
> this - maybe something like http://www.showmyip.com/torstatus/ with just
> the relevant data for new Tor users.
>
> . . .
> Wesley Kenzie
> WebMaster
> http://www.showmyip.com/
> http://www.privacy-ecosystem.com/
>
>
>
Sounds great, looking forward to it!

I'll direct TorK users to it once it's up and running.

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-or-talk at freehaven.net [mailto:owner-or-talk at freehaven.net] On
> Behalf Of Robert Hogan
> Sent: December 19, 2006 1:07 PM
> To: or-talk at freehaven.net
> Subject: suggestion for 'is my installation of tor working?' page
>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> http://lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/ipaddr.pl?tor=1
> https://tns.nighteffect.com/
> https://torstat.xenobite.eu/
>
> All of the above provide useful information for the first-time tor user.
> But
>
> the last two are only really meaningful to initates (and probably confusing
> to everyone else), while the first is reassuring but could really offer a
> little more.
>
> What is needed (IMVHO) is a page that confirms you are using tor
> successfully,
> but also introduces you to the other services that tor offers and also some
> advice for the tor debutante. A sort of official or unofficial 'welcome to
> the tor network' page. This could be linked to in the FAQ/INSTALL and used
> by
> controllers/front-ends.
>
> Would the maintainers of any of the above be interested in providing such a
> thing? Given that the heavy lifting has already been done on all of the
> above, it would be very trivial to create. Would there be an appetite for
> such a thing on the tor homepage itself?
>
> Suggestions for content:
>
> * A warm greeting!
> * Top Five things all tor users should know
> * Appeal for users to run servers and link to how-to
> * An introduction to some hidden services
>
> Anyway, just a thought...
>
> Robert

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