Peter van Dijk writes:
> On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 08:22:41AM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote:
> > Yup. I'm just going by history here. MAPS has never abused their
> > position, whereas ORBS is known to block non-spammers simply because
> > they refuse to allow ORBS to scan them.
>
> Argh. Get that misconception *out your head*.
>
> People who disallow ORBS to scan them get listed as *untestable*, not as
> *open relays*. ORBS doesn't block.
Are these records in relays.orbs.org? How can you say that ORBS
doesn't block them, then? Oh, I see, ORBS made up their own semantics
for the DNS zone entries. Semantics which nobody else uses.
> Hint: use outputs.orbs.org instead of relays.orbs.org if your RBL-checker
> is buggy. That way it will only block open relays and allow untested hosts
> through.
That's very nice, but what about the people blocking using
relays.orbs.org? Who told them that they would find DNS entries
belonging to hosts which had never spammed? This is other than what
people were led to expect. It's Yet Another reason why ORBS is not to
be trusted.
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