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Long-Dead ORDB Begins Returning False Positives

Posted by kdawson on from the waking-the-dead dept.

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!"

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  1. Nope. by TheLazySci-FiAuthor · · Score: 5, Funny

    No emails, but it's not the ORDB system. I just don't have any friends.

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    1. Re:Nope. by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 4, Funny

      Now you do. Don't you feel better now?

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    2. Re:Nope. by blhack · · Score: 5, Funny

      No emails, but it's not the ORDB system. I just don't have any friends. I have tons and tons of emails.
      None of them are from people who are friends :(.

      Recieved email, instead of loving signs of friendship, message contained bobcat.
      Would not communicate with again.
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    3. Re:Nope. by flyingfsck · · Score: 3, Funny

      Well, if you are feeling very lonely, then you could always sign up for some spam.

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    4. Re:Nope. by orkysoft · · Score: 4, Funny

      What, did you sell his address to the spammers, or add him as friend? It's a rather big ambiguity, you know...

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    5. Re:Nope. by EdIII · · Score: 5, Funny

      I have thousands and thousands of friends. All of them convinced my penis is small and they have the answer.

  2. No luck by smackenzie · · Score: 4, Funny

    I tried to sign up with Slashdot to comment on this post, but it told me that I would need to validate a confirmation email.

    I haven't received my confirmation email yet... seriously, how long does this take? Anyone? Is Slashdot broken? Do people post comments on Slashdot?

  3. Re:Whoa! ORDB better have a good disclaimer by neonmonk · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't worry, they're completely covered, they did- of course - send an email.

    Wait...

  4. Heh... by FlyByPC · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm imagining the ORDB server basically doing the 'Net equivalent of the Monty Python "SPAM" skit...

    Spam spam spam spam...
    What's that there? An email from your supervisor? SPAM, I say. SPAM SPAM SPAM!

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  5. No kidding. by raehl · · Score: 4, Funny

    If my spam filter service did this to me, I would never us them again!

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  6. No wikipedia entry for ORDB by SurturZ · · Score: 4, Funny

    No wikipedia entry for ORDB, so they never existed.

  7. The unknown future rolls toward us. by OakDragon · · Score: 5, Funny

    At noon today (Eastern Standard Time), the long dead ORDB spam identification system began returning false positives. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. ORDB begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, March 26th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.

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