Re:Eventdns: All name servers have failed

2010-04-19 Thread David Carlson
I am a newbie here, so perhaps this is an overly naive response to this subject. I am using Windows XP and I am behind a digital modem provided by AT&T. That modem is the DNS for my local network. I see that message at times when I think that AT&T is re-booting that=20 modem (lately that is

Re: Eventdns: All name servers have failed

2010-04-20 Thread David Carlson
On 4/20/2010 6:14 AM, Scott Bennett wrote: On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 05:50:42 -0500 (CDT) I wrote: On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:00:20 -0500 David Carlson wrote: I am a newbie here, so perhaps this is an overly naive response to this All of us have been at some point

Re: Legal response to real abuse

2010-08-07 Thread David Carlson
On 8/7/2010 6:36 AM, and...@torproject.org wrote: On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 11:48:36PM -0700, mikepe...@fscked.org wrote 3.4K bytes in 84 lines about: : Now personally, I think that what might be more likely to win you : points with your ISP is to reiterate that these events are : extremely rare i

Re: Tor notice

2010-08-09 Thread David Carlson
On 8/9/2010 6:38 PM, Michael Gomboc wrote: If they would say "Do rely on it for strong anonymity" would you feel more secure? :-) 2010/8/9 spacemarc mailto:spacem...@gmail.com>> Hi all, why in every Tor version (a/b/stable) there is "Do not rely on it for strong anonymity"? If not

Re: The team of PayPal is a band of pigs and cads!

2010-08-23 Thread David Carlson
On 8/23/2010 2:05 PM, Andrew Lewman wrote: On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:52:17 + James Brown wrote: "Our records indicate that your password may have been shared with another person, or that an anonymising proxy to access your PayPal Account may be in use. Should this be the case, it would mean a

Re: [Bulk] Re: The team of PayPal is a band of pigs and cads!

2010-08-24 Thread David Carlson
On 8/24/2010 5:09 AM, Michael Scheinost wrote: On 08/23/2010 10:04 PM, David Carlson wrote: I am a newbie here. Since they use SSL, isn't it overkill to route your connection through Tor? I know it is a pain to switch Tor on and off No, it's not an overkill since tor does not prov

Re: The team of PayPal is a band of pigs and cads!

2010-08-24 Thread David Carlson
On 8/24/2010 9:56 AM, Andrew Lewman wrote: On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:04:04 -0500 David Carlson wrote: I am a newbie here. Since they use SSL, isn't it overkill to route your connection through Tor? I know it is a pain to switch Tor on and off when multitasking, but it would seem tha

Re: How does Gmail know my local time zone (therefore ignoring the time zone of the Tor exit node) and what else can it see?

2010-09-06 Thread David Carlson
On 9/5/2010 4:11 PM, Geoff Down wrote: On Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:55 +0100, "Matthew" wrote: Hello, I have yet another question that relates to the effectiveness of Tor. Gmail (and therefore presumably other webmail operators) knows my computer's time zone. It does not know the time per se

Re: Why does this happen?

2010-09-09 Thread David Carlson
On 9/9/2010 9:12 AM, Andrew Lewman wrote: On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:03:16 +0100 Matthew wrote: [17:50:35] Your Computer's Clock is Potentially Incorrect - Tor has determined that your computer's clock may be set to 7285 seconds in the future compared to the source "DIRSERV:80.239.147.21:443".

Re: U.S. begins censoring Internet at U.K.'s request

2010-11-06 Thread David Carlson
On 11/6/2010 1:02 PM, Scott Bennett wrote: > I wrote: >> http://news.antiwar.com/2010/11/05/us-censors-muslim-websites-list-of-british-mps-who-supported-iraq-war/ >> >> Using exit "chuckthecanuck" gives a Google (!) error page, saying URL >> not found. I'll add that exit to my ExcludeExit

Blocked from yelp.com?

2011-01-29 Thread David Carlson
Hi, I am forbidden to access the server yelp.com. Is that because I am a Tor exit node? Thanks David 0xDC7C8BF3.asc Description: application/pgp-keys

Re: Blocked from yelp.com?

2011-01-30 Thread David Carlson
On 1/30/2011 1:53 PM, Geoff Down wrote: > > > > On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 10:24 -0600, "David Carlson" > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am forbidden to access the server yelp.com. Is that because I am a >> Tor exit node? >> >> Thanks >> >>

Re: Sent e-mails going into spam folders.

2011-02-07 Thread David Carlson
On 2/7/2011 1:00 PM, Matthew wrote: > I am wondering to what degree people on this list have problems with > e-mails going into spam folders because they are using tor nodes. > > I refer to sending from a webmail (Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail, AOL, etc) to > another webmail. > > It seems to me that e-mail