On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Ben Kochie wrote: > my roomie found something called "ORBS lite" it includes only things that > have proven positive.. not ORBS's "we hate you" list.. i havn't looked it > up.. but I was going to play with it tomorow. Mail servers which test positive for relaying, are manually entered into the ORBS database, block access when ORBS probes them, or are within the address blocks of known spammers. All servers which participate in a multihop relay are listed as open relays. The full ORBS database is queried via the domain suffix relays.orbs.org. Queries that use the suffix inputs.orbs.org instead will return a positive result only if a server has tested positive as an open relay, but not if it was blacklisted for other reasons. Some administrators see this so-called "ORBS Lite" as a good compromise between the cautious policy of the MAPS RSS and the very aggressive policy of the full ORBS database. So, you just use inputs.orbs.org instead of relays.. -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500