At 11:41 PM 2/10/00 -0800, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
>Have you considered putting ORBS in your blocking files? I'm redoing stuff
>to use tcpwrappers, and I'll probably block their stuff at that level once
>I'm done. I wonder if that'll qualify me for their database or something,
Most likely, yes. AboveNet blackholed ORBS for some of their customers, and
ORBS has blackholed all of AboveNet. Of course, they don't say that on the
site; why should they explain the rules to everyone? See
<http://www.orbs.org/above.net.txt> for details.
> since I won't let them whack at my servers without my permission any
> more. Horrors, that. Of course, from my experience, the number of sites
> that actually connect to ORBS is so tiny, I don't even pay attention to
> it any more.
Because we are colocated at AboveNet, we had some problems with users to
our mailing lists bouncing everything. It turns out "some" was "virtually
none", like maybe two companies out of the tens of thousands we have on our
lists. When I realized this, I had a good chuckle.
Oh, and after you've been blackholed by them, don't bother sending them
mail. They use their own list to blackhole and expect you to get a Hotmail
account in order to talk to them. Great planning, that...
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium
