I think that unless you have a good way of telling specific people in the need of a bridge about your bridge without telling the world, that you should not consider being a bridge,
-Martin --- On Mon, 10/19/09, Flamsmark <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Flamsmark <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: any rough stats on bridges ? > To: [email protected] > Date: Monday, October 19, 2009, 4:05 PM > I'd like > to see some stats, or even some conjecture, as to the > longevity of a bridge, and what it means for the bridge to > be born, be used, and eventually be blocked. > > > > I understand the mechanisms used to slowly feed bridge > information to people who request them, but even that > slowness can't keep them from eventually being > discovered and blocked. > > > It seems that a reasonable question might > be: for a home user, with a static IP, planning to > contribute to Tor, which is most useful: should they just be > a bridge; start out as a bridge, and then eventually change > to a relay; or immediately sign on as a relay? Given some > responses to this, might it make sense to construct a tool > to tell people when their bridges should change to > relays? > > *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/

