On Wednesday 23 February 2005 11:15 am, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Patrick McFarland wrote: > > Today lilo (the FreeNode network owner) has decided to make one step away > > in a direction opposite of freedom, and banned all Tor users from the > > FreeNode network. > > > > Tor ( http://tor.eff.org ) is an open source anonymous gateway system. > > Many users who are not in the position to be able to use IRC otherwise > > (such as those who live in countries who do not believe in free speech) > > now cannot use Freenode any longer. > > Were you fortunate enough to be in one of the channels getting spammed > by bots coming from Tor last night?
Unfortunately, yes. And several more have been flooded in the past few hours. However, I don't think banning Tor (or as lilo puts it, "Temporary ban") is the answer. It is not up to opers to ban Tor, because channels themselves can deal with Tor users on their own. Why hamper legit users when maybe one or two are actually causing problems? imo, Tor is very important for free software. -- Patrick "Diablo-D3" McFarland || [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989
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