>> Yes, ORBS catches a ton of spam. It also labels a lot of email that
>> I'd like to see, as spam.
>
>But that wasn't what ORBS is about. ORBS stands for Open Relay Blocking
>System, and it does exactly that. It blocks open relays.
That's simply untrue. ORBS lists vast numbers of IPs of either
networks that have blocked ORBS because he won't stop spamming them,
and of systems run by people he dislikes. My servers, which have
never been open relays, have been in and out of ORBS over the years.
The entire network ranges of above.net and Roadrunner, both rather
large providers who have blocked ORBS' probes out of exasperation, are
listed as "open" in ORBS.
I do agree that the three MAPS lists block a lot of spam with few
false positives. Claimer: I helped build the MAPS RSS.
This isn't the place to have the ORBS arguement yet again. The usual
venue is the SPAM-L list.
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