At 10:33 AM -0400 8/20/03, Aron Spencer imposed structure on a stream of electrons, yielding:The problems at Osirusoft have gotten so bad that they appear to now be serving up data which is at least many weeks, perhaps months, out of date. There has been a lot of discussion about this in <news:news.admin.net-abuse.blocklisting>
and <news:news.admin.net-abuse.email> (beware, the latter is VERY noisy) and the consensus seems to be that relays.osirusoft.com has become too stale to trust.
Well, per somebody's suggestion, I changed my block from 127.0.0.2-127.0.0.255 to 127.0.0.2-127.0.0.3 and 127.0.0.7-127.0.0.255, leaving out 127.0.0.4-127.0.0.6. Will this ignore the worst problems with osirusoft?
No, it will only avoid the problems with SPEWS data, the local Osirusoft 'spamsources' list, and whatever the .5 and .6 codes are sourced from. It has been well documented now that Osirusoft's relay list (i.e. 127.0.0.2) is over a month out of date and there is some indication that it may be far older or perhaps even totally random at this point, as it has listed at least one machine intermittently that has not been an open relay for well over a year. In addition, the Osirusoft retest systems via mail and web have been broken for weeks and there have been reports that the phone number in their domain registration is now not working as well. Joe Jared (the guy behind Osirusoft) has not posted in any newsgroup or on any of the spam discussion lists where he and I are both members for many weeks, which is Not Normal.
And if anyone is still using Osirusoft, stop right away. They were blocking tons of legit mail, including this list! And potential paying clients, yikes! cbl.abuseat.org is working much better.
Avi
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