I don't really do IRC, mainly because most development channels are on Freenode - Freenode famously blocks Tor unilaterally. You pretty much cannot get on Freenode via Tor without some proxy gymnastics. Freenode blocks a lot of other proxies as well, so even that is a significant hurdle. I'm not sure how it handles VPNs but I don't have any of those they couldn't help in my case anyway.
I was just hoping an admin could set me up an account and afterwards I could change the password! Lol. I don't need anyone to re-code the spam blocking implementation. Honestly it seems like a decent interim solution to just suggest that Tor users must contact an admin to set up an account. I personally don't mind the extra step at all. Thanks to everyone for discussing this though. gl -------- Original Message -------- On February 3, 2018 10:55 PM, <goli...@dyne.org> wrote: >On 2018-02-03 16:32, Adam Borowski wrote: >>On Sat, Feb 03, 2018 at 12:38:49PM -0600, goli...@dyne.org wrote: >>>On 2018-02-03 11:18, taii...@gmx.com wrote: >>>>On 02/03/2018 07:14 AM, Arnt Karlsen wrote: >>>>>..some people HAVE to use Tor, because their lives depends on it. >>>>>..and, we need a backup plan whenever Tor fails. >>>>> Again a life and death issue. >>>>> And there should not ever be a debate as to if someone "needs" it. >>>>>Asking a few simple questions about the distro would be an effective >>>> spam filter without discrimination. >>>>Our spam setup has blocked about 29700 spammers in the last year and >>> not one >>> spammer has gotten through. Only about a dozen folks have had >>> problems >>> registering. So our system is effective and not going anywhere. We >>> also >>> have questions BTW and before we upgraded our line of defense, >>> spammers were >>> still getting through. >>>Including "please ask on IRC for registration" in the error message >> sounds >> like a good alternative for those who for whatever reason believe they >> need >> to use Tor (be their fear warranted or not, it's not our duty to >> judge). >> > Great minds! We just now decided to send them to freenode IRC #d1g-users > in that automated message. I'm hoping to see 'ghostlands' pop up there > soon. > >>An automated exception system takes hours to code, and, as you just >> mentioned, was not 100% effective. A human, on the other hand, has >> natural >> detection of all bulk abuse attempts, and will let through at most an >> individual abuser, who could have easily registered anyway. >> > Ralph is a wizard at cobbling anti-spam stuff together. It has, with a > few exceptions, been trouble-free and 100% effective. I may be wrong but > iirc the setup didn't take that long to put in place. (golinux sends > some virtual ice cream to Ralph.) > > golinux > > >Dng mailing list >Dng@lists.dyne.org >https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
