On 2/21/2010 12:32 PM, Jon Lewis wrote: > On Sun, 21 Feb 2010, Michelle Sullivan wrote: > >>> To the best of my knowledge, MAPS was the first to do it. Uribl.com >>> currently does it (and does the sort of query aggregation across your >>> entire? network) that I mentioned. >> >> Can you access MAPS without a subscription at all? > > At this point, I have no idea. Originally, yes. Even after they "went > commercial", IIRC, they were still going to provide free access for > "hobbyists" but not for business users. The quality and coverage of their > service compared to others that were available became such that I stopped > using it and didn't miss it.
I also have no current information (except personal surprise that they were still around), but I got into anti-spam groups and lists, and learning "sendmail" when our mail started failing left and right. Long story short somebody (HP, our vendor? the previous secretive "admin"? I never did figure out who) had configured all of our sendmail instances to use MAPS, and MAPS had shut off the service--no warning that I know of, no alternative that I know of. I do recall that when we started developing our own tools (in the pre-Postini days) our catch rate went up and our FP rate plummeted. -- "Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have." Remember: The Ark was built by amateurs, the Titanic by professionals. Requiescas in pace o email Ex turpi causa non oritur actio Eppure si rinfresca ICBM Targeting Information: http://tinyurl.com/4sqczs http://tinyurl.com/7tp8ml