On Sunday 05 November 2006 20:23, Matt Ghali wrote: > There is a fundamental flaw in this assumption that will cause you > problems with a much larger user set than just tor users
this is untrue for NNTP protocol. Every newsreader makes use of 1 to 4 persistent internet connections. The client establishes them then uses the existing ones for all puroposes without opening new ones. This makes low the number of total required connections. 90% of my users establishes less than 100 connections per day, 94% less then 200 and only 1% more than 300. The maximum number is 500 per day. NNTP is an uncommon protocol, only a few people use it. Of course, large routers may be banned but they're well known and i can set a different ip based policy if needed. A lot of clients makes use of automatic news agents like suck which open a single connection per time. If they're run every a quarter of hour, a single user consumes only 96 connections per day. Of course, this problem exists for large networks but their routers are well known and i can define a different policy for these IPs (the tor access works in this manner) Greetings
