Trust no one. Not fully at least.

Yeah thats mostly the one that keeps me going.

Ah, I was wondering why I couldn’t get it to detect my yubikey. I saw keepassxc-full in the repo but that also didn’t seem to work. I’ll have to revisit it.

The primary reason a private track is private is to make it feasible to maintain a curated community. Many users are not good torrent citizens. Many users are not good netizens in the first place. More than a few will look to actively do harm. Keeping a mostly closed community allows the vetting of users and those who end up breaking the rules are dealt with swiftly.

The extra barrier of entry also helps prevent bad actors from operating on the site. This is of course not a full proof thing but it is obviously much better than a public site.

Additionally running a private tracker and site takes server resources that are not free. Limiting the total number of users is a way of maintaining uptime by staying within your operational limits.

I’m sure there are other benefits for private trackers but these are at least a few.

I am not going to explain why someone on the internet was mean to you. Given the tone of this post I wouldn’t be surprised if it was deserved.

Are you asking about why private trackers are private or are you asking about why a handful of people were mean to you who also happened to use a private tracker?

Edit: typo

There sure is a lot of ultra-triggered atheists in here!

No one is answering my question:

Why can’t you see a post or comment about religion and say to yourself, “Oh, this is not for or about me” and then just move on to another post?

I do. You don’t see those posts because they don’t exist.

A question in exchange. Why do religious people have to constantly insert their beliefs into the lives of everyone else? Why is the primary stance of a major political party one steeped in what they claim to be religion yet is overwhelmingly full of hate?

But I wasn’t even talking about vpns. Just private trackers and how to get into them.

I don’t see how thats relevant.

Depends on which tracker. In general though invites and you get invites by association with relevant groups. Sometimes open registration occurs (though rarely) an other times the trakcer may do interviews.

It mostly comes down to time and patience.

Symlinks likely wouldn’t work for a torrent, because that’s more like a shortcut; The symlink doesn’t actually point to the file, it just points to another filepath.

They are kinda like a shortcut but they are resolved directly by the filesystem and in the fast majority of cases should work perfectly fine if done correctly. In OPs case I’d probably leave the original file intact and create the link at the new desired destination.

You can’t have a hardlink for your C: drive on your D: drive

Thats why I didn’t recommend hardlinks. But I misread OPs post and I see the data will all live on the same drive so I revise my original suggestion and also recommend hardlinks.

But a torrent client likely won’t be able to handle the “oh actually you need to go visit location B” instructions, and will just crash/freeze/refuse to seed.

You’re just pulling that out of your ass.

*all of this is largely under the context of linux but should translate to windows

Symlinks? Pretty sure that exists on windows.

I have static IPs. That is going to be a required item for hosting email.

My main point is that it is seemingly impossible to tell what Microsoft has and has not shit listed because may operate their own internal list which isn’t published.

I’m somewhat of the opinion though that more people should self host email and try to be a thorn in the side of these corps implementing arbitrary rules. If more people aren’t receiving email more reports about I will be generated and that will hopefully result in more people like us getting our email successfully delivered.

Well I have some hardware colocated at a DC so I can’t speaktoo much about cost plus IP reputation. I can also only rely on individual IP blacklist checking. If MS has decided on their own to blacklist an entire subnet there isn’t much to be done about that.

Well my IP isn’t on any blacklists but I can’t speak on getting whitelistred" by providers. I can send to gmail without going to spam. Idon’t generally send much email though.

Is self hosting a valid answer?

I host my own email.

It was less so “they aren’t interested” and more so “we don’t have time right now will and the buf fixes that need implementing”.