[38384] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ORBS go bye bye?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Whitehill)
Mon Jun 4 14:26:38 2001
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 14:24:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Eric Whitehill <eric@botbay.net>
To: Richard Welty <rwelty@averillpark.net>
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As I sit here I'm finding out more details - Apparently it's been ordered
shut down by the courts? Any truth to this?
-Eric
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>
> >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.
