[Remops] Attn Middleman remailers

[Bananasplit Admin]

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On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 07:46:24PM +0100, Senshi-Admin wrote:
> 
> You didn't add my pinger yet ...

Hi Sunshi,
Sorry about that, it's added now.  I follow the remops list through a
local.lists newsgroup I host and I've just realised that a lot of recent
messages are missing.

> 2. why don't you supply similar metastats for Type1 CPunk?

I keep meaning to add that functionality, it's just a matter of getting
around to it.  Will try and do it in the coming weeks.

> Not necessarily. While Reliable uses the remailer's address by default
> (which should be whitelisted anyway), you can specify a different
> address for the pinger:

Thanks for the clarification, I didn't know Reliable had that option.  I
don't think Mixmaster does whitelist other remailers, it just allows
Mixmaster encoded messages to go out.  To return pings the remops would
still have to whitelist the address, even if it's the same as the
remailer.
 
> IMO, whitelisting pingers is a bad idea. While the latency is corrected
> this way, the reliability is falsified. Think of wrong keys of
> randhopped-to remailers or other circumstances that lead to loss of mail.
> This is not noticed when pingers are whitelisted. Even more, with the
> improved latency, the remailer could be used in more chains with the
> possibility to lose more messages.

I agree that whitelisting a pinger would cover up the fact that a
middleman remailer might not be randhopping correctly.  I was going to
say that Middleman should only be randhopping on rare occasions when
people hardcode a Middleman as an Exit, but looking at remailer-stats,
it seems some are Randhopping a considerable percentage of their load.
I just picked amigo from the top of the list as an example:
http://pinger.bananasplit.info/thesaurus/47.stats

No idea why the randhops should be so high.  Anyone else know?
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