Thus spake Paul Syverson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 08:54:42AM -0500, Michael Holstein wrote: > > Most exit nodes disallow port 25 (smtp) because NOT doing so would make > > TOR a spammer's paradise. If you know a relay-server that runs smtps or > > uses an alternate smtp port, use that. > > > > Actually we would expect Tor to be a relatively inefficient vehicle > for spam even with port 25 open, so hardly a paradise. The decision to > block port 25 by default was based partly on the expectation that spam > is the most known and widely despised source of abuse and we expected > people to raise this as a concern. We wanted to be able to say that > Tor was simply not a vehicle for spam since it is default configured > so as not to be able to transmit email at all. (I know that's too > quick, but we're reasoning at the level of soundbites.) Even with > that, it has not prevented ignorant statements in various places from > making the association that Tor is a spam engine. Imagine how much > worse the image problem would be if there were even a grain of truth > in these statements. We were also partly concerned about network > load.
Hmm, maybe a middle ground might be to make note of which SMTP servers are authenticated and operate on an SSL port, and provide such a list on the wiki so that node operators can consider writing specific exit policy lines for just those SMTP servers' IPs. -- Mike Perry Mad Computer Scientist fscked.org evil labs
