On 20-Jun-2001 Kirk Friggstad wrote:
> For all who are looking for more information on the death of ORBS, I've got
> some links for you:
>
> The Register has coverage of the death of ORBS:
> "ORBS is dead. Again":
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/19417.html
> "ORBS' death: Alan Brown replies":
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/19460.html
> "ORBS to be reborn? Not bloody likely, says Alan Brown"
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/19572.html
> (FYI - Alan Brown is the guy who ran ORBS until very recently)
> "ORBS is reborn":
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/19715.html
> "ORBS splits into ORBZ and ORBL":
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/19793.html
> "ORBS now split into three":
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/19802.html
>
> There was also discussion of ORBS' death at Kuro5hin.org:
> http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/6/11/15931/5284
> This is from a couple weeks ago, so it doesn't cover some of the more recent
> happenings, such as the launch of ORBZ (http://www.gst-group.co.uk/orbs/),
> ORBL (http://www.orbl.org/), and ORDB (http://www.ordb.org/) in the last
> week or so.
>
> Davide, maybe you should keep the ORBS code in XMail until these "baby-ORBS"
> have gone through a bit of a shakeout, see which one(s) survive? Just my 2
> cents...
I'll do more, since the lookup method is the same for all MAPS ( swapped IP +
orig-dns ) I'll add generic maps check.
- Davide
