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Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Sat Apr 7 00:30:59 2012

In-Reply-To: <60973.1333763717@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 10:00:24 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: "goemon@anime.net" <goemon@anime.net>, NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 7:25 AM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
> Yahoo is only a hegemony among spam havens, not a monopoly. =C2=A0There's=
 still
> freelance havens out there, and they'll go away when SORBS does.

Sorbs did have a decent set of traps - and did catch a lot of spam.
The problem was atrociously poor maintenance - stale entries, entries
that'd reappear due to db issues, people skills of the volunteers
handling the queue ..

I'd have thought there'd be some improvement with their being
acquired.  Got to see.

--=20
Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)


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