Re: RBL report..
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 postmaster@domain. 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.
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<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
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<Knghtbrd> it would have been so much nicer if y2k effectively killed off
hpux, aix, sunos, etc ;>
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