Dear Conrad,

I picked the first, less reduced policy from 
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/ReducedExitPolicy and changed 
my OR/DirPorts from the defaults as it suggested.  Not sure if I should have 
picked the 2nd, even more reduced policy or not.

--torix


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On August 23, 2018 4:54 PM, Conrad Rockenhaus <[email protected]> wrote:

> It’s located in Denver, but Colin had a good suggestion to have everyone run 
> a reduced exit policy for now until things cool down a little, and the 
> provider seemed to cool down their stance after I approached them with that 
> idea and stated that they just wanted the flood of abuse emails to stop, and 
> even suggested that I reach out to the copyright holders and try to get them 
> to contact me directly, since the IPs are SWIPped to me and that is the 
> proper procedure anyway.
>
> So, the new colo stays alive for now…. I’ll let things cool down for a bit 
> then we’ll open the exit policies back up and see where things go from there.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Conrad
>
> > On Aug 23, 2018, at 2:30 PM, Franklin Bynum [email protected] wrote:
> > Where is your hardware physically located? If it’s in the United States, I 
> > can probably help you get your stuff back.
> > —
> > Franklin Bynum
> > Lawyer
> > Bynum Law Office
> > 708 Main Street
> > Houston, Texas 77002
> > Dial “713 LAW FIRM”
> > +1 713 529-3476
> >
> > > On Aug 23, 2018, at 07:51, Conrad Rockenhaus [email protected] wrote:
> > > So, new equipment gets plugged into a colo…. I’m a dude that was looking 
> > > to increase AS diversity on Tor and well, decided to add a new colo to 
> > > the mix.
> > > Two exit relays are brought online on properly SWIPed IP addresses. These 
> > > exit relays have only been online for about 24 hours.
> > > An organization, known as Irdeto Intelligence, ignores the fact that the 
> > > IP addresses are SWIPed and sends abuse complaints to my upstream 
> > > providers asking them to straighten me out, because I’m a pox on society 
> > > because people are torrenting via Tor. They have sent over 40 emails in 
> > > the last 12 hours.
> > > Some dude-man, who calls himself a “Network Security Administrator” who 
> > > asked me to explain what Tor is……….because he’s a Network Security 
> > > Administrator……..has told me that due to the volume of complaints I need 
> > > to block the offending applications from their network.
> > > I told him that I spoke with them prior to bringing this stuff online, 
> > > explained what Tor was, explained what a Tor exit was, explained that it 
> > > will generate complaints, explained the DCMA liability, explained the 
> > > whole thing…..and was told that they were okay with it.
> > > I’m sorry for the bitching and moaning…it’s just another case of doing 
> > > everything right and now I’m quite worried that they’ll not only pull the 
> > > plug, that I’ll have to fight to get my Cisco UCS blade server back (and 
> > > other assorted equipment) which is totally not going to be cool.
> > > Conrad
> > >
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