I post some negative messages about ORBS and RBL and look what happens! Gee, isn't it co-incidental that my mailer is now blocked? It sounds like straight-up intimidation actions to me. If this is the action of a responsible anti-spam fanatic then it is an even greater indictment of the entire RBL/ORBS movement. The hostname is right, DNS is healthy, including my ORSC root-zone servers, and I am running current sendmail with anti-relay active. Gee, maybe they're making a statement ...ya think? That's alright, woods just hit my kill-file anyway >plonk< But, this seriously indicates that this ORBS/RBL think is getting way out of hand. Typical vigilante pattern.
-----Original Message----- From: Mail Delivery Subsystem [mailto:MAILER-DAEMON@mhsc.com] Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 11:46 PM To: rmeyer@mhsc.com Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable
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