[atlas] Private Probes: What's the Point

Hi James,

I just wanted to clarify a few points about how the probes work in 
response to your comment.

All RIPE Atlas probes, even those not marked “public”, are available to 
be used in both built-in and user-defined measurements *as sources*.

Many probes are not hosted on the open Internet, so they make for lousy 
targets. In most cases, they're hosted on internal networks, so they're 
often not “targetable” at all. More importantly, hosting a probe does 
not make your network (which already exists on the open Internet) any 
more or less likely to be the target of a measurement.

And in terms of outgoing traffic, the probe generates next to nothing 
(typically a few Kb/s, even when it’s being used for user-defined 
measurements).

You can learn more about this from the FAQs:
https://atlas.ripe.net/about/faq/

Please let us know if you have any other questions.

Regards,

Daniel Quinn