drsnoid's mail2news results 18-March-09

[drsnoid]

[News]
102 total routes, 66 of them good. A 64.71% overall success rate.

Yes, it has been a long time since these results were updated. The reasons
for this were many, chiefly the state of flux the remailer network has been
under during the last few months (remailers going offline, new ones added
etc.) and the fact that I needed to devise a better way of testing so that
test messages would propagate. Things seem to have settled down now and
I've made adjustments.

At the time of this writing the choice of mail2news gateways is limited.
With panta offline, we have the mixmin and banana gateways, the kulin
gateway and dizum. If any of these services went down it could get
serious. The bright side is that all of these services show extremely good
reliability across the board. If fact, if we take the panta remailer and
gateway out of the mix, we have
80 total routes, 66 of them good. An 82.5% overall success rate.

I can write a simple sysnopis of "don'ts" here:
The austria, devurandom, hastio, neush and nymu remailers will not post
using a Post directive.
The austria remailer will not post through the banana and dizum mail2news.
The hastio and frell remailers will not post through the kulin mail2news.

That's it. Everything else works.

The gpfa, neush and nymu remailers added to the results.
The panta remailer and mail2news down at time of testing, marked as BAD. I
left them in the results hoping against hope they come back someday.

A graphic representation of these results over time is available at
http://drsnoid.cotse.net/results.htm

More information about these results
http://drsnoid.cotse.net/gatepick.htm

Data as of 3/18/2009 BAD
austria > ***@bananasplit.info BAD
austria > ***@dizum.com BAD
austria > ***@reece.net.au
austria > ***@m2n.mixmin.net
austria > mail2news-***@panta-rhei.eu.org BAD
austria > Post: BAD
borked > ***@bananasplit.info
borked > ***@dizum.com
borked > ***@reece.net.au
borked > ***@m2n.mixmin.net
borked > mail2news-***@panta-rhei.eu.org BAD
borked > Post:
cripto > ***@bananasplit.info
cripto > ***@dizum.com
cripto > ***@reece.net.au
cripto > ***@m2n.mixmin.net
cripto > mail2news-***@panta-rhei.eu.org BAD
cripto > Post:
cyberiad > ***@bananasplit.info
cyberiad > ***@dizum.com
cyberiad > ***@reece.net.au
cyberiad > ***@m2n.mixmin.net
cyberiad > mail2news-***@panta-rhei.eu.org BAD
cyberiad > Post:
devurandom > ***@bananasplit.info
devurandom > ***@dizum.com
devurandom > ***@reece.net.au
devurandom > ***@m2n.mixmin.net
devurandom > mail2news-***@panta-rhei.eu.org BAD
devurandom > Post: BAD
dizum > ***@bananasplit.info
dizum > ***@dizum.com
dizum > ***@reece.net.au
dizum > ***@m2n.mixmin.net
dizum > mail2news-***@panta-rhei.eu.org BAD
dizum > Post:
frell > ***@bananasplit.info
frell > ***@dizum.com
frell > ***@reece.net.au BAD
frell > ***@m2n.mixmin.net
frell > mail2news-***@panta-rhei.eu.org BAD
frell > Post:
george > ***@bananasplit.info
george > ***@dizum.com
george > ***@reece.net.au
george > ***@m2n.mixmin.net BAD
george > mail2news-***@panta-rhei.eu.org BAD
george > Post:
gpfa > ***@bananasplit.info
gpfa > ***@dizum.com
gpfa > ***@reece.net.au
gpfa > ***@m2n.mixmin.net
gpfa > mail2news-***@panta-rhei.eu.org BAD
gpfa > Post:
hastio > ***@bananasplit.info
hastio > ***@dizum.com
hastio > ***@reece.net.au BAD
hastio > ***@m2n.mixmin.net
hastio > mail2news-***@panta-rhei.eu.org BAD
hastio > Post: BAD
kulin > ***@bananasplit.info
kulin > ***@dizum.com
kulin > ***@reece.net.au
kulin > ***@m2n.mixmin.net
kulin > mail2news-***@panta-rhei.eu.org BAD
kulin > Post:
metacolo > ***@bananasplit.info BAD
metacolo > ***@dizum.com BAD
metacolo > ***@reece.net.au BAD
metacolo > ***@m2n.mixmin.net BAD
metacolo > mail2news-***@panta-rhei.eu.org BAD
metacolo > Post: BAD
neush > ***@bananasplit.info
neush > ***@dizum.com
neush > ***@reece.net.au
neush > ***@m2n.mixmin.net
neush > mail2news-***@panta-rhei.eu.org BAD
neush > Post: BAD
nymu > ***@bananasplit.info
nymu > ***@dizum.com
nymu > ***@reece.net.au
nymu > ***@m2n.mixmin.net
nymu > mail2news-***@panta-rhei.eu.org BAD
nymu > Post: BAD
panta > ***@bananasplit.info BAD
panta > ***@dizum.com BAD
panta > ***@reece.net.au BAD
panta > ***@m2n.mixmin.net BAD
panta > mail2news-***@panta-rhei.eu.org BAD
panta > Post: BAD
paranoia > ***@bananasplit.info
paranoia > ***@dizum.com
paranoia > ***@reece.net.au
paranoia > ***@m2n.mixmin.net
paranoia > mail2news-***@panta-rhei.eu.org BAD
paranoia > Post:
pboxmix > ***@bananasplit.info
pboxmix > ***@dizum.com
pboxmix > ***@reece.net.au
pboxmix > ***@m2n.mixmin.net
pboxmix > mail2news-***@panta-rhei.eu.org BAD
pboxmix > Post:

[drsnoid]

Post by drsnoid
The gpfa, neush and nymu remailers added to the results.
The panta remailer and mail2news down at time of testing, marked as BAD. I
left them in the results hoping against hope they come back someday.

I should also add that the metacolo remailer has been down for a lenght of
time, marked as BAD but left in the results in case it returns.

drsnoid

[Anonymous]

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[News]
102 total routes, 66 of them good. A 64.71% overall success rate.
Yes, it has been a long time since these results were updated. The reasons
for this were many, chiefly the state of flux the remailer network has been
under during the last few months (remailers going offline, new ones added
etc.) and the fact that I needed to devise a better way of testing so that
test messages would propagate. Things seem to have settled down now and
I've made adjustments.

What's a polite word for "worthless"?