Keary Suska writes:
> I am sure many of us who have had to deal with ORBS in New Zealand in the
> past have come back feeling that they are a bunch of assholes, and their
> reputation preceded the others who are listing open relays. I am glad to see
> that ORBZ is willing to enter a dialog with admins instead of taking the
> holier-than-thou "like it or lump it" attitude of the (hopefully) now
> defunct ORBS.
Keary, ORBZ takes a holier-than-thou "like it or lump it" attitude. I
told them to stop testing dul.crynwr.com on Saturday when I got
spammed Yet Again by them. Later, Ian said:
> You never actually asked us to stop. You informed us that you'd block
> us, and we said that was fine with us. Had you asked us to stop, we
> would have sent you our stop scanning policy:
>
> Send us, via certified mail, on company letterhead, a letter stating
> that you wish us to stop testing you, and that you understand that
> this will result in unconditional blacklisting. We'll add you to
> both of our blacklists, post a scanned copy of the letter on our
> web page as an explanation of why you've been manually added, and
> change the last test date on your IP address to the year 3001, so
> you won't be tested again. The manual listings are necessary because
> we can no longer verify that your server is not an open relay,
> therefore we must assume that it is.
In other words, you can like it or lump it. Your only real choice is
to block their scans.
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