Re: For Alan Cox ...

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu May 11 2000 - 18:52:07 EDT

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    > 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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