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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!"
well, if this is the case why have they still got the domain name in use? Take it away (or better, let all connections through and then ignore them - 'dumbass' mail admins will soon figure out why their email servers are processing all that mail so slowly all of a sudden.
They could just remove the url and let the connections go nowhere - those admins would then see logs filled with 'failed to connect' errors.
Hurting people like this is not in the best interests of the net or community projects as a whole. It shows another reason why my boss can claim Linux (and all OSS stuff) is poor, this would never happen with a company he paid for service.