>I'm looking for some feedback. I have a customer that is thinking about a
>law suite against ORBZ because of lost sales.
Well, just think of the bad publicity your customer would get, going to
court to protect the right of spammers to use his mail server for free. :)
Running an open relay (almost always) means that you are allowing spammers
to use your mailserver for free, whether you want them to or not. I know I
wouldn't pay an ISP to help subsidize spammers, and would have a hard time
buying something from a company if I knew part of my money was helping
spammers send spam.
>How do ya'all feel about this blacklisting site?
>Are any of you using the list?
Quite a few people use it, but most people don't prevent the E-mail from
being delivered (since there are still quite a few open relays out there
sending legitimate mail). Some people will add a warning header
("X-RBL-Warning: This E-mail comes from a mail server that is spam
friendly", for example) or add a simple "ORBZ:" to the subject of the
E-mail. That way, the recipient can decide whether or not to filter on it.
>Have any of you been blacklisted by this service and have lost business
>because of it?
We occasionally get listed in the blacklists because we (intentionally) run
an open relay (no, spammers can't use it). That's just a risk we run in
having an open relay. We could easily close it, but keep it open to test
our Declude Hijack, as spammers find our mail server.
-Scott
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