> Jason Haar writes:
> > Be careful Russ - Orbs Admins were *definitely* known to block sites who
> > blocked their scans. After all, if you had nothing to hide - you wouldn't be
> > doing it...
>
> I know. As I say, the more legitimate sites that get blocked, the
> less valuable ORBZ will become.
ORBZ != ORBS
We believe that any admin that chooses to block us certainly has the
right to do so. If they are actually running open relays, the other
blackhole listings will get them.
> > The term "Net Nazi" still applies methinks. They are very militant (or
> > idealist - choose your poison) in their attitudes towards others. I just
> > spent a week getting our site off ONE Orbz listing (we're not relaying of
> > course). They had some old Orbs list they based their system off, and we
> > were on there for some ill-begotten reason - they didn't even test it!
Bullshit. We test every server that we list, and even post copies of the
messages that we relayed through the server to our site as proof.
> Don't bother trying to get off ORBZ. Instead, if anybody complains
> that they cannot send you mail because you are listed on ORBZ, tell
> them exactly why ORBZ has listed you. The more mistakes they make,
> the fewer users they will have.
>
> And scanning a site that has never relayed email is a mistake.
Oh great one, please bless us with the knowledge to divine whether a site
has ever relayed mail. I don't know about yours, but my computer isn't
psychic.
Ian Gulliver
ORBZ
