Some Bones to Pick with Tor Admins

[mark485anderson at eml.cc]

Maybe not many users because Tor's last two versions are buggy and don't
allow them to use it? Still plenty of 98se users out there and I have 3
browsers now that can use tor safely. course they will not work on .33
and .34 because tor developers do not adequately test or code their
program.
This is a simple matter, no great task. Maybe they are just lazy?

On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:50:27 -0500, "Roger Dingledine" <arma at mit.edu>
said:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:19:38PM -0700, mark485anderson at eml.cc wrote:
> > (please read and comprehend in entirety, thanks)
> > Say, howz about fixing your latest "stable" version of Tor so that it
> > still works on W98se? I get protection faults when executing tor (not
> > within vidalia).
> 
> At this point there are very few win98 users of Tor. That plus the fact
> that win98 is known to be obsolete and insecure means we don't pay much
> attention to it.
> 
> Like the other esoteric operating systems out there, we don't object to
> staying compatible if it's not too much trouble, but we rely on the
> users to help track down the compatibility problems and work with us to
> fix things again.
> 
> I should also note that the ability to stay compatible with win98 is
> fading. I believe Firefox 3 has dropped win98 compatibility. Now that
> Firefox 2 is unsupported, it will soon be the case that you have no safe
> browser to use with Tor. (You need Torbutton 1.2 on Firefox to have any
> chance of safe browsing.)
> 
> > The last most recent version returns error messages saying that it is
> > obsolete already??? What's the deal with that? You mean the next most
> > recent version is already
> > obsolete?
> 
> You should be on the or-announce list if you're not already.
> http://archives.seul.org/or/announce/
> 
> --Roger
> 
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