Re: [tor-relays] 7 relays gone because of spammers

2015-02-25 Thread grarpamp
This is unfortunate but we will not be deterred. I would also go chargeback if notice you now give them does not result in satisfied action by close Sunday. You paid for a year based on some assurance, and did not receive. Now in the future... You plan was long and two part, partly confusing. It

Re: [tor-relays] 7 relays gone because of spammers

2015-02-25 Thread Richard Johnson
On 2015-02-25 11:35, Speak Freely wrote: The Abuse department's rationale is as follows: "Your account was suspended because 100% of your IPs are blacklisted on multiples lists for Spam and other malicious activities. This case is closed and this decision is final." Speaking as an abuse desk l

Re: [tor-relays] 7 relays gone because of spammers

2015-02-25 Thread Mirimir
On 02/25/2015 01:34 PM, ja...@icetor.is wrote: > This++ Indeed! And if you used PayPal, they may also help. > On 02/25/2015 07:32 PM, Pascal wrote: >> If you paid with a credit card, give them a choice: they can either >> refund your money or you will initiate a chargeback. Either way you get >

Re: [tor-relays] 7 relays gone because of spammers

2015-02-25 Thread ZEROF
Hi man, I will try to explain you how things got in wrong direction for you. OVH don't lie, but they don't have best support that you can find around. Anyway. Last 15-25 days a lot of attacks was made on French ISP's and attacker used Tor IP list to do one part of his sick idea. One of my nodes "i

Re: [tor-relays] 7 relays gone because of spammers

2015-02-25 Thread I
OVH says no to Tor exits openly doesn't it? > Quote: > "Rest assure that, in case of an abuse, we will not terminate your > account without notice. In fact we may not even terminate your VPS. You > will receive a warning from our Abuse department giving you a choice to > resolve the abuse case" >

Re: [tor-relays] 7 relays gone because of spammers

2015-02-25 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Speak Freely wrote: > Hello fellow relay runners, > > This morning OVH decided to kill 7 of my relays due to spamming, and > block all access to all services. I ran the Reduced Exit policy for > all of my relays. I run one relay with OVH and one with DigitalOcean.

Re: [tor-relays] 7 relays gone because of spammers

2015-02-25 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Chris Patti wrote: > I'm having a similar situation. Linode issued a ToS violation because > my linode on which I run a relay was a source of spam. > > Very strange because I had reject *.* (no exit) set in my torrc. I have operated a non-exit relay on Linode for

Re: [tor-relays] 7 relays gone because of spammers

2015-02-25 Thread Chris Patti
I'm having a similar situation. Linode issued a ToS violation because my linode on which I run a relay was a source of spam. Very strange because I had reject *.* (no exit) set in my torrc. Anyway I've had to give up and shut down FiatLux. Kind of a bummer, I really enjoyed contributing to Tor.

Re: [tor-relays] 7 relays gone because of spammers

2015-02-25 Thread jason
This++ On 02/25/2015 07:32 PM, Pascal wrote: > If you paid with a credit card, give them a choice: they can either > refund your money or you will initiate a chargeback. Either way you get > your money back, but with the chargeback you will probably get all of > your money back instead of a prora

Re: [tor-relays] 7 relays gone because of spammers

2015-02-25 Thread Sebastian Urbach
On February 25, 2015 8:21:32 PM Speak Freely wrote: Hi, Oh yes, my money is gone already. They have no interest in talking to me anymore, as the decision was final. The Abuse department won't talk to the Support department, and the abuse department won't talk to me. Thats really sad. Spam ab

Re: [tor-relays] 7 relays gone because of spammers

2015-02-25 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Josef Stautner wrote: > He said that he ran an reduced exit policy relay. > Is portscanning even possible there? Yes. The CMU Tor exit started with the reduced exit policy, and we wound up additionally removing access to ports 22 and 23 (that is, ssh and telnet)

Re: [tor-relays] 7 relays gone because of spammers

2015-02-25 Thread Pascal
If you paid with a credit card, give them a choice: they can either refund your money or you will initiate a chargeback. Either way you get your money back, but with the chargeback you will probably get all of your money back instead of a prorated refund, they have to pay a fee, and may have t

Re: [tor-relays] 7 relays gone because of spammers

2015-02-25 Thread Speak Freely
Oh yes, my money is gone already. They have no interest in talking to me anymore, as the decision was final. The Abuse department won't talk to the Support department, and the abuse department won't talk to me. I'd be more inclined to think these spam assassin fellas/"evil doer finders" just pars

Re: [tor-relays] 7 relays gone because of spammers

2015-02-25 Thread Toralf Förster
On 02/25/2015 07:53 PM, Josef Stautner wrote: > Is portscanning even possible there? Should better used "service discovering" or "address range scanning" ? I do observe at my exit relay since December last year, that few times per hour between 500 and 5000 different ip address are "contacted" ov

Re: [tor-relays] 7 relays gone because of spammers

2015-02-25 Thread s7r
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello, Sorry to hear this. I want to setup a big node at Voxility, which is a good provider to host Tor exits, maybe more of us can pool together financial resources and make a big cluster. I have some offers from them if interested. On 2/25/2015 8

Re: [tor-relays] 7 relays gone because of spammers

2015-02-25 Thread Josef Stautner
He said that he ran an reduced exit policy relay. Is portscanning even possible there? Am 25.02.2015 um 19:51 schrieb Toralf Förster: > On 02/25/2015 07:35 PM, Speak Freely wrote: >> "Your account was suspended > Does this really mean, that your money is lost already ? > Often ISPs just plugged of

Re: [tor-relays] 7 relays gone because of spammers

2015-02-25 Thread Josef Stautner
Hello Speak Freely, that's not nice to hear. Quote: "Rest assure that, in case of an abuse, we will not terminate your account without notice. In fact we may not even terminate your VPS. You will receive a warning from our Abuse department giving you a choice to resolve the abuse case" Has OVH c

Re: [tor-relays] 7 relays gone because of spammers

2015-02-25 Thread Toralf Förster
On 02/25/2015 07:35 PM, Speak Freely wrote: > "Your account was suspended Does this really mean, that your money is lost already ? Often ISPs just plugged off a server from the network till "you solved the problem" > "your IPs are blacklisted on multiples lists for Spam and other malicious > act

[tor-relays] 7 relays gone because of spammers

2015-02-25 Thread Speak Freely
Hello fellow relay runners, This morning OVH decided to kill 7 of my relays due to spamming, and block all access to all services. I ran the Reduced Exit policy for all of my relays. Due to heightened concerns about this affecting other unrelated services I have with OVH, I had to shut down the o