Patrick, Do you mind adding this info to the "good/bad isps" wiki? I'm looking around for hosting as well and thought we could improve that page a little. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/GoodBadISPs
Thanks, Greg On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 9:52 PM, Kenneth Freeman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 09/08/2015 12:14 PM, Patrick O'Doherty wrote: >> I received the following response from them: >> >>> We do not discriminate on the use of any protocol among our customers. >>> Nevertheless, if we get complains or any type of pressure from public or >>> private >>> entities for illegal activity occurring in your server, we will have to >>> suspend >>> service. >>> You will be immediately contacted about any issue that arises. > > This explanation is marvelously vague. > >> so it would appear that they're not too friendly about hosting exit >> relays. I've asked if they can forward all abuse complains to be instead >> of immediately terminating service, but I'm not too hopeful. > > My hunch is that they just don't want to deal with the complaints and > legal & administrative overhead -it's more cost-effective just to cut > you off. When I first set up Tor some years ago I briefly ran it as an > exit node, having sent an explanatory e-mail to my ISP, but I very > quickly learned that once they receive a DMCA notice they cut you off at > the knees, whereupon you're dealing with "help" desk morons working from > a very strict script. Best to run an exit node from a corporate set-up > with the legal boilerplate already in place. > > > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays > _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
