<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 20, 2015, at 12:36 PM, Wilfried Woeber <<a href="mailto:woeber@cc.univie.ac.at" class="">woeber@cc.univie.ac.at</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hi Jon!<br class=""><br class="">On 2015-10-19 05:00, Jonathan Brewer wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Hi All,<br class=""><br class="">I've run into a few probes marked private, and when I've found & asked the owners,<br class="">they didn't realise they'd done anything restrictive or harmful to researchers by<br class="">marking their probes private.<br class=""><br class="">Intrigued at this phenomena, I had a look at the probe metadata. Right now I think<br class="">there are 1,534 Atlas probes that are active and connected to the network, but<br class="">marked private.<br class=""><br class="">What's the point of having private probes in the network? Do their hosts still"<br class="">earn credits they can use on public probes? Should they be? Are private probe<br class="">hosts helping the project?<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">IIRC, we did have quite a bit on the topic of labelling probes as "private", but<br class="">I would have to do some digging to find the references to that discussion..<br class=""><br class="">But before chiming in ith my personal point of view, may I ask the Atlas Team<br class="">to summarize what the effects of "private" are. I seem to remember that private<br class="">probes *do* participate in the built-in measurements. I may be wron, though.<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">The FAQ says nothing about private probes, so I thought I would ask here.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">I think it is pretty useful to have another look at that setting.<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Thanks,<br class=""><br class="">Jon<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Cheers,<br class="">Wilfried<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div>My understanding is that my private probe participates in built-in measurements but is not open to the world. My small network is not designed to serve as a target for the world.<div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: normal; border-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: normal; border-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal;"><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">James R. Cutler</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="mailto:James.cutler@consultant.com" class="">James.cutler@consultant.com</a></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">PGP keys at <a href="http://pgp.mit.edu" class="">http://pgp.mit.edu</a></div></div></span></span></span></span></span></div></div></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""></blockquote></div></div></div></body></html>