Mike Knell said:
> > ORBS says that the system was confirmed as an open relay back on October 21
> > 1999. Hopefully that's been corrected.
>> Not sure I'd say ORBS-intelligent - the MAPS RBL model of blocking known
> spam relays seems a lot more productive to me than scanning everyone's
> hosts looking for open relays which might just possibly one day be used
> for relaying spam.
yep, and I'd only use ORBS for spam-detection heuristics instead of
out-and-out blocking.
BTW apparently ORBS were recently (ie. over the weekend) having database
problems, so this could be the result of a restore from an old backup...
anyway I'd suggest a mail to orbs.org,
--j.
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