Check this out, I can't get to Orbz's website anymore (and I suspect you can't either):
We can't either. Attached is a letter from a customer forwarded to our upstream (another above.net victim/ISP). If Above.Net wants to shed customers like a duck sheds water these filters will surely have that effect. -- Roger Marquis Roble Systems Consulting http://www.roble.com/
I'm unable to access my primary spam filter subscription, www.orbz.org, thanks to some clueless filter-nazi at above.net. Can you add a route to orbz (205.231.149.0) through ###### (bypassing above.net)?
As you know ####### provides spam filtering services to its customers via orbz, orbl, ordb, and other dns subscription services. Above.net's un-announced and un-approved IP filters are impacting our services, customers, and cash-flow. I hope you and above.net are aware that these filters are causing financial hardship to ##########.
Longer-term, please let me know if you decide to open a worldcom co-lo. This is the second time we've been screwed by above.net (the first due to their blocking orbs.org) and we are preparing to move to sonic.net or another ISP to avoid these petty, unprofessional, and ongoing RBL turf battles.
traceroute to www.orbz.org (205.231.149.53), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets ... core1-main2-oc12.sjc1.above.net (208.185.175.253) 1.548 ms !H * * * * * ...