----- Original Message ----- | From: "adce4170d57b7c20" <[email protected]> | To: [email protected] | Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2014 4:36:47 AM | Subject: [Lynx-dev] [lynx.isc.org] You are apparently blocking Tor users (and others), probably damaging reputation |
whose reputation? Tor users are anonymous, and such have no reputation to discuss. | The Lynx download website (lynx.isc.org) is famous for banning many | IP | address from downloading releases [1]. actually, the source given doesn't support the statement (it is a random comment). | If you tried to get a safe copy of your great software, for example, | from Iran, the most straightforward way is to do with Tor [2]: | | $ torsocks curl -LO | http://lynx.isc.org/current/lynx2.8.8rel.2.tar.bz2 | | However, this would result in: | curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 403 Forbidden lynx.isc.org blocks IP-addresses which appear in the logs for (a) break-in attempts, and (b) attempted DOS. On rare occasions, a user reports a problem with this, and on investigation his/her address is unblocked. Odds are, a Tor user was being a nuisance (and if they had reputation, it would be lessened). -- Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
