I've tried ORBS in the past, but I filtered out too much useful stuff. Complaints from users, customers, and vendors made me turn it off.
Chris Green >From: Joe Matuscak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Chris Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: MAPS >Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 13:35:12 -0400 (EDT) > >On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Chris Green wrote: > > > Now that MAPS has gone commercial, has anyone tried subscribing and >setting > > Gnatbox to query their new servers? Does it work? $200 is not bad at >all > > for the service as long as it will still work with the firewall. I >liked > > having the firewall bounce all the email so my mail server didn't have >to. > > I have seen a HUGE increase in spam in the past few weeks since MAPS >stopped > > working for me. > >Ive looked at a MAPS subscription, but unfortunately it looks like we're a >bit over the 100 email account limit on the small business flavor. That >turns a reasonable $200/yr into a much harder to justify $1500/yr. I sent >them some mail asking about user upgrades for the small business version >and they claimed they were going to do that, but I still dont see anything >on the website about it. > >In the interim, Ive started using some of the free open relay listing >services. Even when we were using MAPS, the bulk of the stuff that got >bounced was from the open relay list rather than the RBL. The two that im >using at the moment are ordb (see: www.ordb.org) and orbz (www.orbz.org). >These services actually seem to work better than MAPS RSS, in that they >are more automatic. Open relays get listed quicker, and there is a >automated way for sites to get un-listed. Im still thinking of doing the >MAPS RBL+ since they list the commercial spamhauses that are not open >relays, but do spew out the garbage. > > >Joe Matuscak >Rohrer Corporation >717 Seville Road >Wadsworth, Ohio 44281 >(330)335-1541 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
