[e-privacy] (fwd) Re: Best Place to Update Remailer Stats... ?

Mon Dec 30 06:59:50 CET 2002

Per sapere dove prendere le statistiche.

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On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, An Metet <anmetet at freedom.gmsociety.org> wrote:
>Aight, is it just me or has anyone else noticed that some or many remailers
>ain't so reliable anymore?
>
>Personally I'm using JBN2 Remailer client. When JBN wasn't working all that
>great a couple months ago, I swung over to Frog's site and went through the
>JBN survival guide. Replaced that outdated .dat file and so forth. After
>that, JBN seemed to be working fine once again. I could chain through
>multiple remailers with little problem (which was the main problem in the
>first place). 
>
>Now, seems as though the same old problem has crept up; difficulty chaining
>through any more than about 2 remailers.
>
>Currently, I'm updating my stats, chaining and key information from
>anon.efga.org. Perhaps anon-efga is giving me bad stats?
>
>I don't know, but is there a better place to update my stats from?
>Thanks

efga has been unattended for the past 6 months
Sadly to say, but the only thing efga is providing now is an example:
- -how a service, valuable in the past, can become a liability
- -why people should not run a public pinger if they don't attend it
properly
(it also casts a doubt on the reliability of efga *other* services:
 with such bad keyrings, mail gets lost
  all the remix repgp functions
  efga is middleman....

[Trains are equipped with a security device which makes the machine
stop if the driver is not periodically signalling that he is
awake/alive.
Maybe developers should equip pingers with a similar device:
 if the owner is not there for a week: stop publication
Unfortunately, it is still fashionable to boast:
"I did not reboot for the past 10 years"
Please, make me a favor and forcibly unplug me of I go this way.]

efga is so bad that I listed it among the "dangerous places" in my
daily "survival kit"
You can check by yourself and feed efga urls into 
  http://frogadmin.yi.org/MetaStats/QryKeyRingUrl1.html
(change FAROUT to FROG or something else as Ping Leader #2)

Another daily post rates the pingers according to their keyrings'
accuracy
(pingers who chose to be public)

Of course, you may use Frog :-)
In any case, don't forget to ZAP your keyrings to repair efga's damage

Client Configurations for LES Dummies
   http://www.privacyresources.org/frogadmin/Configs/

(NB: unless you perform a full reinstall, "JBN2 Quickstart" is of no
use.