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Re: Fw: Administrivia: ORBS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg A. Woods)
Wed Jan 19 11:50:03 2000
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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 11:47:30 -0500 (EST)
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From: woods@most.weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
To: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu (North America Network Operators Group Mailing List)
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Reply-To: woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
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[ On Tuesday, January 18, 2000 at 15:19:38 (-0500), Barry Shein wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Fw: Administrivia: ORBS
>
> Oh they might block a bit of spam here or there but mostly they harass
> honest people until they close the barn door now that the horse (and a
> thousand others from other barns) has run through your yard and is
> headed off into the sunset.
They're not intended to block a lot of spam. They're intended to raise
awareness of the issue. IMRSS was even more specifically for that
purpose but it apparently crossed a number of other lines that made it
less acceptable.
This really is a non-technial approach to the problem and it will work,
and is working, for that purpose.
--
Greg A. Woods
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