[proxyTools-users] Re: [noCensorship] Is there A proxy FAQ for starters ?

[wayne <wa...@ny...>]

> From: rainman <ra...@ny...>
> To: noc...@fr...
> Subject: [noCensorship] Is there A proxy FAQ for starters ?
 
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> The more I read the archives of "nocensorship" and "proxy-tools-users" the
> more I feel convinced that I should know 
> 
> - about proxies (General Stuff), 
> - the various functionalities like is it anonymous, does it allow
> tunneling, does it allow this or does it allow that, 
> - what is "connect"
> - what is SSL
> - what is SSH
> - what are bare minimum tests that one should do with LP and what do these
> tests mean 

The bare minimum is zero. 
The normal minimum is also zero.
The LP database (hosts.zip) contains thousands of proxies together 
with their test results, ready for LP to use.

> etc. 
> 
> BEFORE i venture to start with LP

Why?
LP is designed to do as much as possible for you.
You don't need to even know what those things are, let alone 
understand them, just to *start* with LP.
You do need to know things like:
1) how to set up your clients (web browser, news reader etc.) to 
use LP as it's proxy.
2) A news server's address if you want to read news (other than the 
free one included in LP). If the one you want to use is not free, 
you need to know how to get access to it. Usually that would come 
with your ISP subscription.
3) How to read English documentation!

If you know these things, and LP doesn't work for you 
out-of-the-box, then I want to know why and I will fix it, 
if it's possible and practical. 

Naturally the more you know the more things you can do with LP 
(and anything else). For example if you can use statProxy to 
test your own proxies, you want LP to use them, so you need to 
know how to use mergeHosts to merge them into whatever config 
file you are using with LP.

> Is any material available on the net on the above
> 
> Say A proxy FAQ for starters

Did you try Google?
I only got 595,000 hits :-)

> TIA!
> r/m

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