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It is rumored that on 26-Mar-2000 Nils Jeppe wrote: > On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Mark Brown wrote: > >> ORBS also blacklist sites for other reasons, such as if their probes are >> firewalled out. This will, for example, catch sites that automatically >> firewall out sites that attempt to relay through them - the site notices >> the first check, blocks the rest and gets added to the list. > > Well I didn't know that, however, that's a pretty redundant thing to do - > afterall, you can just disable relaying alltogether and be done with > it. ;-) If you are on a 64K line and get hit by a spam blast from some well known providers only the rejects fill your line completely. Unfortunately I have seen this quite afew times and been hit a few years ago by it a few times. So this is actually a good policy. Though if you are smart enough to configure something like this yous hould be smart enough to make it avoid the orbs wrath ;-) [snip] - ---------------------------------- Anton R. Ivanov IP Engineer Level3 Communications RIPE: ARI2-RIPE E-Mail: Anton Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> @*** Sociology's Iron Law of Oligarchy *** In every organized activity, no matter the sphere, a small number will become the oligarchial leaders and the others will follow. - ---------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iQEVAwUBON9JjilWAw/bM84zAQEk9AgAjvcaQWoFX9GvpwgYlitlrektqR4OuhYR jgvOWv+hU5IoYpNun9tUeEVbpuhckQqNpLtDoC7OX6lpk7Uim5jKiq3WtTN/LAEg 3u9VJbIydyEI8LUGTruFz5Fl5gaHrF2B1ILPNxcfPK1FVywBXVfM3Rx5CYbH9P8W tcfnpTfS1lX6hiiA0hwPFfiavDe5cAHELKLQczgur1PVfBZdBuYhobfwuMFIEn1T U2dQaBrOmaTzAxh7B6XGkOZ6XcasEENBi5VoqLhd/rK0TTsrhx8/VWGktnjT3Mwi 9qRT1pOfn/cZRdt3qu+B6n+7o2jBHXksSoDVBCuDs+Pob1tfT0udzQ== =531T -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----