[pythia__]

As a Slashdot comment points out, CloudFlare could protect the owner from DDoS attacks with minimal effort on his part.

Edit: The original original post already talks about CloudFlare. The reference was lost in an Internet game of telephone.

[anc84]

Please no, I like being able to read gmane privately without having to solve obnoxious captchas every time.

[pythia__]

You can have it both ways: use CloudFlare and offer direct access through a hidden service (since DDoS attacks over Tor are impossible, expect for application layer attacks).

[ryanlol]

What purpose does the cloudflare captcha serve in that scenario?

And lots of people who aren't Tor users also have to suffer through the captchas every time they visit a CF site.

[garaetjjte]

For 200$/month.

[lathiat]

they run an NNTP server, not just a website. So cloudflare would not help with that.

[skrause]

The DDOS targeted only the web server. The NNTP server (news.gmane.org) is on a different server and actually still running just fine right now.

[tedmiston]

I have no idea what their traffic requirements are, but CloudFlare has a generous free plan.