>On 7/14/01 7:08 PM, "Tom Wiebe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> So what do we do now? We are running email just for our client's sites,
>> not a large list, and the $200/year subscription fee is a little pricey
>> for our needs. Are the new ORBS lists any better than the old one? i.e.
>> are they lists of mail servers that are misconfigured or are they lists
>> of mail servers that the owners of the list have a grudge with, like the
> > old ORBS list?
I'm surprised there isn't more discussion of this.
I think this is going to be a bad thing that backfires on MAPS. The
reason that MAPS is useful is that anyone can use it. If I have to
pay to use it (and I'm not about to pay since my mailserver does not
generate money) then that's one less server that is blocking spam.
Less blocked spam in general is a bad thing.
Besides, about 80% of the spam I see now is not being blocked by MAPS
anyway. I have 722 spam messages in the last 25 days. I see 0-5
emails blocked most days and up to 20 blacklist blocks on "big" days
in my logs. Given that easily half of these spams are hitting my
internal blacklist of China Telecom (61.128.0.0 - 61.143.255.255
202.96.0.0 - 202.111.255.255) I don't see the subscription being
worth my money. What I will do is scour my logs for all the ips that
have hit the blacklists this year and add them manually into the
blacklist list.
In principal less than $20 a month is not a lot of money, certainly
not for an ISP or a business with lots of employees... but I would be
hard pressed to extort $200/year out of my friends and family simply
to pay for a slight decrease in incoming spam.
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