On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 04:46:09AM -0500, Bob Tanner wrote: > This whole MAPS thing just pisses me off. To me MAPS is just a community > parasite. > > Anyways, as we work through how to replace MAPS and not 100% sure if these ORBS > replacement people are going to be ready, I thought, why can't you do MAPS-like > stuff yourself? > > I asked MAPS for their RSS testing tool, so I could test sites myself before > submitting them to the database. I as told it was not possible for "legal" > reasons. I thought it was weird, but dismissed it. > > Looking back at it now got me to thinking MAPS probably had this whole > commerical thing planned from the start and that is why they would not release > the RSS testing tool. > > Working through my anger, I thought why isn't there an open source project for > MAPS-like software? Then ISPs like Real Time could just setup and MAPS-like > database itself -just- for its clients. Or you could become an American branch of any of the new ORBS', but I think that would be something hogging bandwidth. > OR better yet, something like SHoMN (spam haters of Minnesota) and get all the > local ISPs to have some sort of distributed zonefile like MAPS does now. > > So, anyone know of any open source project that provides MAPS-like features? It's not likely that any of the re-born ORBS people wants to release any of their software, sadly. They think that anyone could make a clone and be better than them, that's the right mentality! *sigh* > How did these re-born ORBS people get the original ORBS software? Ordb wrote all their tools from scratch. -- H4sIANVjVzsAA+3QS2rDMBCAYa99irlALY/jB5TiVXuDrLIJLhKJKZGCpGx6+uZFSTfZhRL4 v82MZgahkQ35Jc0bP+VDdMVjaF33bSuFiA6dXmN9ihc6qMiwaLq+11aPuTadNoXUD3rPH4eU pyhS5G3YTenenIt32s9KZHleXD7mT++ivG1z3r8ac/mOyp2rlf0yo7z7tAre/Y5Yn76P5yrE jRlLkV2w632Yfb65JmXrYqy8y+amPUpZ/vfiAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPDkfgDIhI/FACgAAA==