> ban the IP then unban 7 days later. If the IP falls in a > pre-identified 'dirty' range, I never unban it.
I don't mind this approach too much. At least it leaves some room for legitimate users to find exits. Restores the state to open after some time. And is a bit more mature tool in that, if you don't have accounts (which is better to block by if you do), it's the next best way to terminate a problem in realtime. Though I don't think I'd apply a permaban, because whatever IP is bothering you will eventually get pulled at the source before long. Unless their profits come from spam, bribing Russian officials with cracked CC's, etc. >> We haven't considered a particular feature to bloc TOR access, but I can >> pass on the feedback internally. > As you can see: Not only do they not specifically block TOR, they don't have > a feature that to facilitate users blocking TOR. Yet... > Coffee shops are a bit difficult to block specifically, but why do you think > people who block TOR don't block Romania? I suppose it's possible they do as well. Just that as with any userbase, knowing the effective range of their IP's may be hard. On the other hand, maybe they do block RO indiscriminately because they believe it to be a compellingly overwhelming source of trouble, or simply unfathomable, from their perspective, that a legitimate user would come from there. For example, a year or so ago I tested an English language based predominantly North American, slightly Euro, dating site against Tor. Though they had no stated policy to be sure of it, from my tests it appeared that from English speaking exit countries, Tor worked fine. If I let Tor float or come in via say Brazil, the account would be silently deleted. This lead to belief that they utilized the 'unfathomable' policy. Again, their actual policy is unknown, I could have just been using unlucky IP's. Either way, I'd very much hesitate to recommend them to Tor users who would fear for their legitimate account, and thus any developing relations, against that unknown. Further, people find dating hard enough without having their employer or landlord snooping on how many kids they want, and whoever else generally reading/storing/selling their personal bits. These sites need to respect that. Part of which is to fully and properly enable HTTPS on their servers and to permit their users to come from Tor. _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
