At 11:20 AM -0500 3/21/02, Neil Herber nospam  imposed structure on a 
stream of electrons, yielding:
>
>ORBZ was free, but has been shut down by court order.

In the interest of accuracy: ORBZ was shut down because after its 
tests crashed a server owned by the city of Battle Creek MI, the 
owner of ORBZ was made aware that he was under criminal investigation 
for that attack. He shut down of his own volition.

FWIW, it seems that BC is not going to try to press charges. 
Hopefully Ian will reconsider how ORBZ is run if and when he decides 
to bring it back. IMHO testing without prima facie evidence of a 
machine being an open relay is hard to justify ethically or legally, 
and the sort of tests that poked that Lotus bug are hard to justify 
unless you have evidence that spam has been relayed using exactly 
such methods. (basically, using an address on the relay as the 
return-path)


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Bill Cole                                  
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