Messages in this thread | | | From | "David Schwartz" <> | Subject | RE: vger rejecting messages from mediaone | Date | Fri, 14 Jan 2000 10:24:39 -0800 |
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> I can see ORBS's point of view; when someone reports an abused mail > relay at one of roadrunner's customers, ORBS now has no way of > checking to see if that mail relay is in fact open.
ORBS was supposed to be a list of CONFIRMED OPEN mail relays. Apparently, they have changed their mission without telling anyone. Their web page, "What is ORBS?" says:
"What is ORBS? The short answer: ORBS is a validated database of open mail relays and open mail relay output points, accessable via DNS lookup.
ORBS, or the Open Relay Behaviour-modification System, is a database for tracking SMTP servers that have been confirmed to permit third-party relay. These servers permit spammers to connect to them from anywhere in the world, usually from a modem connection, and then forward the spam to its intended victims.
ORBS is NOT a "black hole" - we do not disseminate routing information causing included hosts to be unreachable from portions of the Internet.
ORBS tracks these systems so that people operating mailservers subscribed to our database can block e-mail coming from open relays until such time as they are fixed to no longer permit third-party SMTP relay."
DS
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