Steve Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is misleading. What ORBS does is *test* mail servers to ensure that > it *is* an open relay, before adding the relay's address to the list. > > They do NOT (according to the web page) "scan the net" for open relays. > Rather, the list is generated solely from reports (via web or email) from > folks that have been spammed.
While looking into the fact of the matter (which appears to be correct), I found this idea on the orbs web-page: } Admins may alternatively set their systems up to tag messages } delivered from open servers as "possibly spam", or just log the } connections. What any admin does is entirely up to that admin. If } you've been blocked from delivering mail and given a pointer to this } site please note: It is the decision of the administrator of the site } which blocked you to disallow mail from open relays. Those open relays } must comply with that admin's rules (not ours) in order to deliver } mail to that site - we're just verifying to the admin whether a host } is an open relay or not. Would it be possible to insert an X-Header on email that looks `suspiscious'? That way no-one has to be cut out of sending mail to the debian lists, and those who want to can score down, killfile or whatever to their heart's content. jason -- ____ \ _/__ ``I need every braincell blazing \X / to fight my invisible enemies!'' \/
