That is, if I do indeed have a bizarro use case, and can't talk about it, as
we were arguing about, I can still use the "badexit" labeled nodes as I see
fit, yes ? Or do you drop badexits out of the directory after some amount
of time ?
Yes, it just effects the defaults. As a client you can do whatever you
want. This was discussed almost a month back in this thread.
http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Feb-2011/msg00013.html
Relevant snippet:
Despite its name, the BadExit flag really isn't a big whoop - the
relays are still perfectly usable for guard and middle hop positions.
They just aren't seeing exit traffic any longer.