On 05/23/01, Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com> wrote:
I'm getting seriously confused here. I thought that the open-relay issue was irelevent to MAPS. That MAPS only black-holed confirmed SPAM sites (a little tougher, but more granular, charter). Further, that it was ORBS that listed open-relay sites specifically, whether they were involved in a spam or not (unacceptable due to punishing potential anti-spammers for proliferating spam that never saw their systems). To me, these are two entirely different charters. If MAPS starts to look like ORBS then I will stop using MAPS.
Can someone please clarify?
MAPS is a company. They have three basic lists. One of them, the RSS, contains open relays which have been abused by spammers. http://mail-abuse.org/rss/ has more information. Sometimes people use "MAPS" to refer to the MAPS RBL, which is described at http://mail-abuse.org/rbl/ . The most commonly overlooked (but individually most effective) MAPS list is the DUL, at http://mail-abuse.org/dul/ . Each has its own criteria and set of rules, and each has (as might be expected) attracted assorted kooks and naysayers. -- J.D. Falk SILENCE IS FOO! <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>