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[Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net>]

I didn't realize there was a discussion going on already!  Sorry I'm 
late to the party...

If a server only allows whitelisting, then the bots will go away over 
time.  Eventually opennic may go to only using whitelisting because of 
the benefits from attacks.  Users should also realize that a whitelisted 
server will be *faster* because they will have more bandwidth free to 
answer legitimate queries.

Regarding the matter of distinguishing the servers using whitelisting... 
There should definitely be a flag on the wiki page signifying if a 
server is using whitelisting or not, and that flag could be used for 
sorting the list.  Additionally, we will have to revise our listings of 
'nearest servers' to allow users to make a choice between whitelisted 
and fully-open servers (with the full-open servers being the default view).

And of course we will need to write some wiki how-to pages to show 
people how to register their IP on various platforms.  This project is 
still getting off the ground, it will take some time to get everything 
set up.  However for anyone wondering how they can contribute, it would 
be great if anyone wants to start working on documentation.  Linux and 
Mac users should be easy... simply adding a cron job that runs hourly or 
at boot...  Windows will be more involved, installing wget and setting 
up a scheduled task (or if anyone has alternate ideas?) and will require 
screenshots of the various steps.  We also need a front page in the wiki 
to lay out the benefits of whitelisting, and discuss the measures put in 
place to protect a user's privacy.


On 02/10/2014 07:24 PM, Quinn Wood wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Guillaume Parent <gparent AT gparent.org> wrote:
> > The point is not to punish people who wish to protect their servers, but to
> > not confuse users who are sometimes already so technically challenged that
> > they have no idea what to do with the IP in the first place.
> I guess at this junction, it's a question of whether or not we value a
> large userbase more than educating a small userbase.
>
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