[26784] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fw: Administrivia: ORBS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Sobol)
Sun Jan 16 14:06:51 2000
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 14:03:52 -0500
From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net>
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To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: "Greg A. Woods" <woods@most.weird.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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Paul Vixie's Mail Abuse Prevention System addresses this.
The MAPS Relayed Spam Stopper is similar to ORBS but *only lists
servers that are known to have been used to spam.*
It's not as proactive as ORBS. But there are a lot fewer false
positives. I'd venture to say that the actual number is very
close to zero. :)
Randy Bush wrote:
> > (* obviously not every system listed in ORBS has been used to forward
> > actual spam of course -- why even I have a test machine listed in there
> > for test purposes! ;-)
>
> what if there are systems blocked by orbs which are truely not mail relays,
> for which there has never been evidence of mail relaying, from which spam
> has never eminated, ...?
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