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notes towards a "How to choose the recommended versions" section

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us that you have.
- Dirservers (and operators) in a variety of jurisdictions are best.
2. How to choose the recommended versions
The policy, in a nutshell, is to not remove versions without a good
reason. So this means we should recommend all versions except:
- Versions that no longer conform to the spec. That is, if they wouldn't
actually interact correctly with the current Tor network.
- Versions that have known security problems.
- Versions that have frequent crash or assert problems.
- Versions that harm the performance or stability of the current Tor
network or the anonymity of other users. For example, a version
that load balances wrong, or a version that hammers the authorities
too much.
> some use the slight variant of requiring a *good* reason.
> excellent reasons include "there's a security flaw"
> good reasons include "that crashes every time you start it. you would think
+tor is dumb if you tried to use that version and think of it as tor."
> good reasons include "those old clients do their load balancing wrong, and
+they're screwing up the whole network"
> reasons include "the old one is really slow, clients should prefer the new
+one"
> i try to draw the line at 'good reasons and above'