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Long-Dead ORDB Begins Returning False Positives
Chapter80 writes "At noon today (Eastern Standard Time), the long dead ORDB spam identification system began returning false positives as a way to get sleeping users to remove the ORDB query from their spam filters. The net effect: all mail is blocked on servers still configured to use the ORDB service, which was taken out of commission in December of 2006. So if you're not getting any mail, check your spam filter configuration!"
The site owner is a dick and a moron — it's not very hard to configure a web server so that hotlinking isn't possible.
And is it the fault of the individual users who had all their email discarded? Many of which are individuals who didn't even know their service providers were using ORDB.
Why TF did ORDB's owners choose such an obnoxious way to make their point? If they were trying to establish once and for all that blacklist maintainers are self-rightous, mentally-challenged assholes, well, they convinced me a long time ago.
You really are spectacularly stupid, aren't you? This isn't about them taking it down, this is about them bringing it back up and reporting everything as spam, in other words completely the opposite of what you said.
Hang on, let me get this straight. Bone-dead mail admins are using ORDB, they are sick of all the traffic so they setup false positives for all email. Yet who is the problem? Why, it's Linux!
Seriously, get over it and grow a brain, moron.
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