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Stories and comments across the archive that link to ordb.org.

Stories · 3

  1. ORDB.org Going Offline

    Tech · Networking · · posted by Hemos · from the the-end-of-the-road dept. · 156 comments
    Allan Joergensen writes "ORDB.org has announced that they will shut down their services after fighting open relays and spam for more than five and a half years. The RBL DNS service and mailing lists will be taken down today (December 18, 2006) and the website will vanish by December 31, 2006." The reasons given tend to be the usual ones - volunteers have been focused on other things in life; my salute to those folks for keeping the service up as long as they did.

  2. Spam Lawsuit Clearinghouses?

    Ask · Spam · · posted by Cliff · from the siccing-the-sharks-on-'em dept. · 24 comments
    cloudscout asks: "Spam is getting worse. Despite complex filtering and DNSBL systems the volume of unsolicited eMail continues to climb. The only promise so far has been an increasing number of laws designed to impede the spammers while others are using existing laws to tackle the problem. So when are we going to see this legal process become a commodity? There are already countless lawyers around the country who will accept a set price to fix traffic tickets, handle divorces and get the IRS off your back. When will we see attorneys who are willing to sue the spammers on your behalf for a reasonable, fixed fee?"

  3. ORBS Forks

    Internet · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the children-with-funny-names dept. · 249 comments
    Noxxus writes: "Wired is carrying this article about the shutdown of Alan Brown's Open Relay Behavior-Modification System, more commonly known as ORBS. Brown, of New Zealand, closed his operation after two local companies won legal injunctions against him for listing them." It seems the list of 94,000 open relays will be maintained by: "Open Relay Black List of Phoenix, AZ, Open Relay Block Zone (ORBZ), of Basingstoke, England, and the Open Relay Database (ORDB), of Aarhus, Denmark." We've gotten a zillion ORBS submissions since the day its website went down, but this is the first post-ORBS story with enough info to be worth a mention. Guess the dust just needed to settle.

    We're obviously in the minority, but I think the EFF's John Gilmore has cut to the chase:

    For Gilmore, spam blocking should occur at the recipient level, not at the level of self-appointed upstream censors.

    "I noticed years ago that the community tends to go 'mob' and lose its morals and principles when it comes to spam," Gilmore says. "Free speech, interoperability, inclusiveness, tolerance, privacy, anonymity -- all go out the window when they get in the way of killing off those damn spammers."

    I wonder if he'll get added to spam lists now, like I do every time I post a story critical of anti-spam activists. Yeah, subscribe me and Rob to more mailing lists under the handle "Spamlover." That's real mature.