On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 09:35 -0500, Marc Powell wrote:
I don't think they watch here; at least I've never seen Michelle post here.
I've had confirmation from Michelle personally this morning (following a similar question elsewhere) that the SORBS systems are indeed relocating. From a previous message to SPAM-L (reproduced with permission): Michelle Sullivan wrote:
SORBS is not closing. SORBS has received 3 credible offers for the purchase of SORBS, one of which was not interested in continuing SORBS but obtaining the IP and spamtraps. SORBS will not be accepting the latter offer.
Currently the two offers being considered are with anti-spam vendors and one of the two have indicated that they will not commercialise SORBS, but keep it as a community project. The other anti-spam vendor have indicated they would pursue a split commercial model, where there would be a free service as well as a 'premium' service (how this would work I do not know).
An announcement about which company is successful will be forthcoming when necessary paperwork has been signed.
Small outages will occur in the central database when the servers are moved, this will NOT affect SORBS services globally, only updates (listing and delisting) and local (Au) services during the outages.
As inconvenient as this outage may be, the background to it is one with which a large proportion of this list is probably bearing scars - physical relocation. On a related note, no I don't have any information as to who it is that has taken SORBS on. Regards, Graeme