On 2/21/2010 12:32 PM, Jon Lewis wrote:
On Sun, 21 Feb 2010, Michelle Sullivan wrote:
To the best of my knowledge, MAPS was the first to do it. Uribl.com currently does it (and does the sort of query aggregation across your entire? network) that I mentioned.
Can you access MAPS without a subscription at all?
At this point, I have no idea. Originally, yes. Even after they "went commercial", IIRC, they were still going to provide free access for "hobbyists" but not for business users. The quality and coverage of their service compared to others that were available became such that I stopped using it and didn't miss it.
I also have no current information (except personal surprise that they were still around), but I got into anti-spam groups and lists, and learning "sendmail" when our mail started failing left and right. Long story short somebody (HP, our vendor? the previous secretive "admin"? I never did figure out who) had configured all of our sendmail instances to use MAPS, and MAPS had shut off the service--no warning that I know of, no alternative that I know of. I do recall that when we started developing our own tools (in the pre-Postini days) our catch rate went up and our FP rate plummeted. -- "Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have." Remember: The Ark was built by amateurs, the Titanic by professionals. Requiescas in pace o email Ex turpi causa non oritur actio Eppure si rinfresca ICBM Targeting Information: http://tinyurl.com/4sqczs http://tinyurl.com/7tp8ml