On Sun, 09 Sep 2001, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> Personally, though, I've had very good results with ORBL. I think that all
> the ORBx sites are now independently run, and I haven't had any problems
> with them. Their scans don't seem to cause me the same sort of trouble
> that Russ is having with ORBZ, so I can't really comment on that directly.
ORBL has not a good reputation in the de.admin.net-abuse.mail and
de.comm.software.mailserver Usenet newsgroups, they have various
policies that are not "friendly".
Common objections against ORBL are:
- black list without sending notification
- immediate list of mustistage relays without separate input/output list
References (German-language) to Usenet news articles in
de.comm.software.mailserver, subject "Re: Wer ist der richtige
Mailserver?", 2001-09-03:
Bettina Fink
Message-ID: <9n0cuo$55f$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thomas Hochstein
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> As for which is the "best" list to use, YMMV. I use RBL+DUL+ORBL, and have
> been pretty happy with the results.
Which supposedly kills pretty much legitimate mail as well. ORBL is
claimed - see above - to list ISP output mail servers when some stupid
client of theirs runs an open relay input that forwards to the ISP
output mail server.
