On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 10:18, Smith, Rick wrote: > > How long do you think it will be until users of SA face the same > consequences as the now infamous ORBZ case ? > > I'm sure that some lawyer out there could find a way to sue someone for > running this package. > The problem with ORBZ didn't have anything to do with anti-spam in general, the problem was that the specific actions it used to determine if a mail server was an open relay would crash lotus notes mail servers. ORBZ was shut down to prevent legal problems caused by crashing mail servers, not by filtering spam. www.orbz.org has details of what happened, including the fact that the city government that originally threatened them now agrees that the problem is a buggy mail server and has apologized.
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