On 05 Jun 1999 21:49:04 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
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>As a side note, I'd strongly recommend dumping ORBS in favor of a more
>ethical blackhole list. The maintainer of ORBS has gone on public record
>as blocking hosts because he "doesn't like their attitude," even if spam
>has never gone anywhere near them.
>
>I've heard good things about RRSS (<URL:http://relays.radparker.com/>) and
>the person running it certainly seems to be much calmer and more
>professional about it.
I saw this site mentioned on the Tidbits Talk list about a week ago. I
took a look, and I didn't see anything very useful. It looked to me like a
Vixie RBL clone, only listing sites that had already spammed. I rarely get
RBL hits, and would guess that RRSS hits would be equally as rare.
The usefulness of ORBS to me has always been that they do list sites that
have never spammed but are open to abuse. From what you say above, it
looks like its finally time to dump ORBS. It's always been an
administrative headache, since so many sites that send us legitimate mail,
including Goddard's own main mail servers, are in ORBS. But I will miss
the before-the-fact prevention.
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>Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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