On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 11:15:42AM +0200, Nils Jeppe wrote: > > ORBS has a tendancy to not take the time to make sure their messages go to > > the right places and then they are very slow to take sites off the list > > after problems are fixed. > > afaik, ORBS sends to [EMAIL PROTECTED] What other right place could there > be?
The domain's technical contact. > And taking people off the list is automatic. Fix it, enter the IP in their > form, it gets re-cehcekd and taken off the list. Works like a charm. Uh, I can find at least one site real quickly whose admin will tell you that he got a message from ORBS, fixed the problem, was blacklisted anyway, and it took him a month to get off that list even though the problem was fixed days before they blacklisted him. > > ie, to them making sure spam never happens is more important than what > > damage they cause in hte process. I rate them in with the DUL. > > If people configured their servers correctly, they'd never get on the > list. ;-) Also, ORBS allows for I think 3-5 days warning in advance, which > is sufficient to fix a server. Given every report I've heard to the contrary, I'm not sure I believe that. I've also been told that there are cases where their tests produce false positives. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9DAB3 Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.org/) 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC The QuakeForge Project (http://quakeforge.net/) 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3 <Knghtbrd> it's too bad most old unices turned out y2k compliant <Knghtbrd> because it means people will STILL BE RUNNING THEM in 30 years =p <Knghtbrd> it would have been so much nicer if y2k effectively killed off hpux, aix, sunos, etc ;> <Espy> Knghtbrd: since when are PH-UX, aches, and solartus "old"?
