>You should not allow rogue, (self appointed) Internet Police to make
>decisions about who you filter from your network.
A couple things to remember:
[1] You don't have to block E-mail to use these services. For example, you
could add a warning to the beginning of E-mail coming from open relays
("[This mail came from an open relay and could be spam]"), which would end
up helping get the open relay closed (reducing spam for everyone), while
guaranteeing that legitimate mail comes through.
[2] Different filtering services have varying levels of "rogueness". For
example, I've never heard of a non-dialup-line being added to the DUL
service. In that case, assuming nothing changes, you could use the DUL
database without having to worry about any rogue self-appointed Internet
police. If you agree with the reason for the entries being in there, you
can use it; if you don't, you don't.
>You should police your own network.
And people do that by having closed relays, and using software to help
prevent their own users from spamming.
But, ORBS/RSS/RBL/DUL/etc. are used mostly for incoming E-mail. That's
protecting your users from unwanted E-mail (time and expense), and the spam
server databases can help with that. Whether or not they are effective is
highly debateable (so let's not), but making a decision to use them is a
decision involved in policing your own network (as far as incoming stuff goes).
>Organizations like ORBS allow network admins to become lazy and
>unaware of what's really happening on their networks.
How so? It actually prevents network admins from becoming lazy and being
unaware, as it helps close open relays.
-Scott
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