Check out mail-abuse.org. They are the ones who actually run the RBL. vix.com no longer mirrors the RBL. According to the mail-abuse web page vix.com stopped on June 15th.
I didn't read why..I would have been very sad to see the RBL go away. You scared me ;) Greg On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Duane Powers wrote: > Greg Rowe wrote: > > > What do you mean departure of the rbl? blackhole.mail-abuse.org still > > works? > > > I read a thread on one of the debian lists a couple weeks ago about one > of the spam databases going away... a couple of days later, I started > getting lots of this > > daemon.log.0:Jun 21 22:18:37 ns1 named[9282]: bad referral (vix.com !< > rbl.maps.vix.com) from [204.152.184.64].53 > > Then if you go to www.orbs.org you get this: > > Due to circumstances beyond our control, the ORBS website is no longer > available. > > > > Perhaps I jumped to a wrong conclusion, or drew a link between orbs and > the rbl that doesn't exist... > > > > > I have been researching MTAs for a little while trying to figure out what > > I want to use instead of sendmail. I was looking for maildir delivery, > > ease of configuration, support for virtual hosting, and virtual accounts. > > Exim does all of that for me quite well. Qmail does too but I hate that > > whole /var/qmail directory structure. It isn't GPL either... Exim also > > has TONS of documentation. I briefly looked at PostFix and it seems like > > a viable alternative as well but has less docs than exim. > > > > Greg > > > > <snip> > > > > Duane Powers > uberLAN.net > -- Greg Rowe Paranoia is a virtue. http://www.therowes.net
