> Last not least: how great, do you think, is the danger of supporting spammers > when setting up my node for 465,993,995? >
The SSL-encrypted SMTP-ports are using SMTP-Auth (mostly). The support of spammer is very low (in my opinion). By the way, I have the same problems like you since Nov.2006 (trouble with the german BKA because of childporn, trouble with my ISP). Half a year ago I switched to middleman but it did not help. I run into a telecommunication surveillance and became a terrorist or something like that. You have read the Heise-News about bad exit nodes (controlled governments and others): http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/95770 I think, a middleman node is not a solution for our problems. May be, we are listed in a database and the listing is not deleted after switching to middleman. May be, a bad exit feature out the next middleman... My recommendation: Try to find a strong, TOR-friendly organisation for your nodes. You manage the nodes and the organisation takes the liability (jurisitische Verantwortung).