Re: For Alan Cox ...

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu May 11 2000 - 17:52:07 EST


> In a nutshell, RR seems to be saying, we care about spam, but we don't want
> external entities probing our customers' hosts. We'd rather handle it
> ourselves. ORBS seems to be saying (on their site), anyone that won't let us
> probe them is almost certainly incompetent or trying to hide something (i.e.,
> that they're spamming, I guess).

ORBS lists sites they cannot probe

> If you're thinking about ORBS, you might want to consider whether the cure
> isn't worse than the disease.

If you dig for an rr address you get back a reply indicated that probing
this range is blocked. Most people I know dont do ORBS drops of mail on that
reply, in fact most dont even do scoring on a 'blocked range' reply.

Alan

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