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[Dima Volodin]

On Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:18:00 +0100 (MET), you wrote:

>On 7 Feb 2000, Stephen Moshier wrote:
>> Does Cygnus know that ORBS is doing them any good?  Suppose you
>> drop ORBS for a while.  Will there be any increase in SPAM
>> getting through?
>
>Yes, by (at least) a factor of two or three, according to the data
>I have gather during the last year (though MAPS RSS now probably
>containts a lot of those open relays already).

I am a RoadRunner customer and I got hit by ORBS's putting entire RR
block into their database. I have a discussion of this matter with RR
folks which you can find in the attachment. All my attempts to contact
ORBS mostly went to a black hole (and no, I didn't use ORBS-blocked
server for that). From what I see from the discussion with RR and from
my prior experience with ORBS, while ORBS service could serve as an
anti-spam filter aid, it's approach is too aggressive and too
self-important for a serious site. My experience also shows that
dropping ORBS altogether and employing MAPS RSS only doesn't show any
growth of spam traffic at all - I did that on a server I control (no
relation to RR) about a month ago (right after RR got hit by ORBS) and I
haven't noticed any changes to the worse yet.

Bottom line - I really wish gcc lists dropped ORBS.

>Gerald

Dima
P.S.
my exchange with RR attached