On 02/08/2017 11:25 AM, DaKnOb wrote: > So less than 24 hours after the previous post and someone, > mysteriously, subscribed the abuse mailbox to > 2,000 newsletters.. > Of course I do not have proof nor am interested on who’s behind this > and it didn’t cause any bad, just good (gave me plenty of data to > research). Also, it seems every time I tweet about Web Iron, more > e-mails arrive. The people behind this “attack” didn’t even bother > to hide their IPs.. I thought they could use Tor to at least make > me think Tor is evil and bad and I should block it.. :-)
How many IPs? That behavior screams "botnet" to me :) > Anyways.. Yeah.. Web Iron seems aggressive in their replies. > > Antonios > >> On 08 Feb 2017, at 16:42, Ralph Seichter <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 08.02.2017 08:03, Andrew Deason wrote: >> >>> WebIron is well aware of what tor is, and they seem to have an issue >>> with the tor network in general, not my specific node. >> >> I have had an e-mail conversation with a Webiron employee. I don't want >> to give details without permission, but in a nutshell, this was what I >> understood: >> >> Webiron is indeed completely aware of what Tor is. Webiron thinks that >> the abuse via Tor outweighs privacy concerns. Webiron is unwilling to >> exclude Tor exits from their automated checks, and is also unwilling to >> mitigate the perceived problem on their end. >> >> I'd like to add that the tone of the e-mails I received was quite >> aggressive, threatening "blocking your whole business". I pointed out >> this mailing list, but I have not heard any feedback beyond that. >> >> After several months of automated complaints, I feel that I have not >> much choice, and I am now ignoring Webiron completely. >> >> -Ralph >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
