<font size="-1"><b>Tor</b> (<b>The Onion Router</b>) is a free software implementation of second-generation onion routing – a system enabling its users to communicate anonymously</font><br><font size="-1"><span class="a"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/">
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/</a><b>Tor</b>_(anonymity_network)<br><br>Note: No pigeons were harmed in the creation of this message.<br><br><br></span></font><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 9, 2008 11:03 AM, Jonathan Hutchins <
<a href="mailto:hutchins@tarcanfel.org">hutchins@tarcanfel.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">
On Tue, January 8, 2008 08:51, Oren Beck wrote:<br>> The short end of this is a question raised about traveling folks using<br>> TOR from Campgrounds on low end hardware.<br><br></div>Oren, WTF is "TOR"? TCP Over Racing-pigeon?
<br><br>It's bad enough when people use non-standard acronyms of their own<br>devising on IRC, where you can get an explanation in real time, but for a<br>semi-literate mailing list, we should do better.<br><br>There was an old "stylesheet" (book of rules for how things get written
<br>consistently), I think it was the NY Times or the Times of London, that<br>suggested that the first usage of an acronym should spell out the term,<br>followed by the abbreviation in parentheses, so: TCP Over Racing-pigeon
<br>(TOR).<br></blockquote></div><br>