Global Homes Webmaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> ORBS has been known to blacklist hosts solely on the basis of their relay
> tests being blocked. That's one reason why I've always declined to use the
> ORBS list. Their reasoning seems to be that if you're not a spammer you
> should be only too happy to let them 'clear' you of being an open relay, so
> you shouldn't be blocking their tests, so if you _are_ blocking their
> tests, you're probably a spammer and you should be blacklisted just to be
> safe. Paranoia strikes deep, no? Anyway, the fine folks at ORBS may
> consider the port 25 block at your firewall to be sufficient reason to
> blacklist your server.
To block the port 25 at the firewall level is my ISP policy, so I
have no control at all about this. But if this fact is used as a
reason by the ORBS folks to blacklist a server, they are really
mistaken IMO, since a small listserver doesn't need to be run
24/7, and the SMTP service can be perfectly closed when it's not
needed (incoming mail can be retrieved via a remote POP account,
or through a secondary SMTP server).
> It's possible that someone on one of your mailing lists (perhaps someone
> who didn't know or had forgotten that they were subscribed to the list?)
> thought that a list message was spam and reported your server to ORBS.
Yeah, it's possible, but not very likely. All messages on all
my mailing lists have a footer with a line indicating how one can
unsubscribe, and subscriptions are always double checked to
prevent malicious attempts or misspelled addresses.
So thank you very much for your reply but again, how can I get my
server out of ORBS? I have no idea about the procedure to follow,
and their website seems to be empty.
Thanks in advance.
Max
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