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Re: ORBS go bye bye?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Welty)
Mon Jun 4 14:23:14 2001

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Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 14:23:18 -0400
To: Eric Whitehill <eric@botbay.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Richard Welty <rwelty@averillpark.net>
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At 02:15 PM 6/4/2001 -0400, Eric Whitehill wrote:

>Anyone know what happened to ORBS?  I can't get their web page - all I get
>is "Due to circumstances beyond our control, the ORBS website is no longer
>available. "

Alan Brown posted some very terse comments and shut ORBS down.
no explicit reason was given, but there were apparently a lot
of things going on.

in the absence of ORBS, MAPS RSS is about the only thing going
for open relay tracking right now. there has been some rumor of
other services appearing, but no solid details.

richard

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Richard Welty                                 rwelty@averillpark.net
Averill Park Networking -- Network Engineering, Software Development
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