Re: orbs.org accuses qmail of mailbomb relaying!

[Nicolas MONNET]

Sorry to contribute to the noise ratio on qmail-list ...

On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Peter van Dijk wrote:
|> That's very nice, but what about the people blocking using
|> relays.orbs.org?  Who told them that they would find DNS entries
|> belonging to hosts which had never spammed?  This is other than what
|> people were led to expect.  It's Yet Another reason why ORBS is not to
|> be trusted.
|
|I admit that this is a design misfeature. Moving the untestable hosts from
|the relays.orbs.org zone to another, leaving just relays in
|relays.orbs.org, is one of the main changes we are proposing to Alan.

You know what? I used to have no opinion on ORBS, but reading this about
"untestable" hosts being classified as almost like open relays led me to
have a strong one against it. 

This behavior is just brain damaged. This is not a minor issue as you seem
to imply by saying "we are proposing [it] to Alan". This is a major
problem. It sucks. 

If Alan does'nt realize it, he's just as brain damaged as his software.