Above.Net really is filtering ORBS. And if ORBS lists people who block them..... indeed! and just imagine the ensuing chaos if orbs decided to (or got hacked and was made to) list the root-servers.
two horrifying further thoughts occurred to me during my mid-afternoon popcorn break. o if someone hacked into isps' routers they could announce the root servers and just imagine the ensuing chaos. so, should we take down all bgp-speaking routers. i bet you think not. so maybe this is not the issue, but security and spam are. o if someone hacked orbs and blocked the merit smtp host, we could all be deprived of the critical operational information we get from this mailing list <gasp!>. but we should back off and not usurp bill's job as the bad-but-cute idea fairy. randy