Re: [RFC] Campaign »Buy/Sponsor a relay.«

2010-03-11 Thread Scott Bennett
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:41:00 -0500 Andrew Lewman and...@torproject.org wrote: On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:26:00 +0100, Paul Menzel paulepan...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: :on the Tor start page [1] there is a message »Help us reach 5,000 : relays in 2010!« :»I guess for people caring about

[RFC] Campaign »Buy/Sponsor a relay.«

2010-03-10 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Tor folks, on the Tor start page [1] there is a message »Help us reach 5,000 relays in 2010!« On IRC arma discovered an offer by the British ISP Coldbot where you can buy 1 Mb/s bandwidth for £9 per month [2]. Although it is quite pricey I find the idea very nice. »I guess for people

Re: [RFC] Campaign »Buy/Sponsor a relay.«

2010-03-10 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:26:00 +0100, Paul Menzel paulepan...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: :on the Tor start page [1] there is a message »Help us reach 5,000 : relays in 2010!« :»I guess for people caring about privacy but not wanting/able to set up :a server themselves can now be told, you can pay

Re: [RFC] Campaign »Buy/Sponsor a relay.«

2010-03-10 Thread starslights
Hello peoples, For my part i am on searching where rent a server for a nicely price to can make again stats on a exit for helping Tor. So any interessant propositions are welcome. As i will offer a constant stats for Karsten and offer a clean exit who are always good to have. Any

Re: [RFC] Campaign »Buy/Sponsor a relay.«

2010-03-10 Thread Damian Johnson
While I understand your concern I disagree since we're already in this boat. I'm currently running a relay with Comcast as my ISP, and if I was going to run an exit I'd go back to the past list correspondence about low-hassle (tor friendly) hosting solutions. In both cases my ISP or hosting

Re: [RFC] Campaign »Buy/Sponsor a relay.«

2010-03-10 Thread Damian Johnson
StrangeCharm and I just had an interesting conversation about this. In short, while this suggestion would diversify trust it would also reduce the entropy of node selection. Not sure which is more important (I'd suspect the former, but could be argued). Cheers! -Damian (09:30:17 PM) StrangeCharm: