[tor-relays] Call for discussion: turning funding into more exit relays

[Steve Snyder]

On 07/30/2012 11:53 AM, Moritz Bartl wrote:
> On 30.07.2012 13:27, Moritz Bartl wrote:
>> We have been kicked from FDC in the past
>
> With only port 80, 443, 554, and 1755 open, this might be different and
> worth a try. Same goes for the similar offer for shared 10 Gbps by Limehost.
>

It wouldn't be different.  FDC threatened to cancel my account after 
several complaints of spamming via webmail.  (I was using the Reduced 
Exit Policy found on Tor's website.)  They only backed down after I 
changed my exit node into a middle node.

Allowing exits from ports 80 and 443 will always carry the risk of abuse 
complaints.

It would be better to retain 80 and 443 as exit ports and just block 
traffic to the Google/Yahoo/AOL/etc. mail servers but I don't how that 
could be done with their respective load-balancing schemes.