MAPS is not ORBS, and orbs.org is not active. The "100% of all incoming email" is e-scrub (Ronald F Guilmette) trying to get people to stop hitting his server with ORBS queries. He was running a secondary DNS server for ORBS and he wants the queries to stop. His solution, apparently, is to return false positives. Dig 36.79.38.208.inputs.orbs.org at e-scrub.com (63.92.26.236) Authoritative Answer Recursive queries supported by this server Query for 36.79.38.208.inputs.orbs.org type=255 class=1 36.79.38.208.inputs.orbs.org TXT (Text Field) MAIL BLOCKED; See http://www.e-scrub.com/orbs/ 36.79.38.208.inputs.orbs.org A (Address) 127.0.0.2 False positives should not occur when using a MAPS (or ORBS) style list since a positive response to the query is what indicates that the IP is on the list. At 10:29 PM 7/30/01, Dave Sherohman <esper at sherohman.org wrote: >On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 06:56:36PM -0500, Bob Tanner wrote: > > Quoting Bob Tanner (tanner at real-time.com): > > > So, with MAPS going to a pay-for-use model, what will be the problems > with mail > > > servers that are still using MAPS but did not pay for service? > > > > > > Will the query to MAPS eventually time out and mail delivery will > slow to a > > > crawl? > > > > > > Will the query be rejected and mail start to bounce? > > > > > > Anyone? > > > > MAPS says all mail (include spam) will go through. > >They must've changed something, then. I've had exim configured to add >a MAPS-based warning header for quite a while and last week I noticed >that all incoming mail was getting the headers > >X-RBL-Warning: (inputs.orbs.org) MAIL BLOCKED; See >http://www.e-scrub.com/orbs/ >X-RBL-Warning: (spamsources.orbs.org) MAIL BLOCKED; See >http://www.e-scrub.com/orbs/ > >added. The referenced URL states quite emphatically that continuing to >use the ORBS service "_will_ result in rejection of up to 100% of all >incoming E-mail, both spam and non-spam." > >-- >With the arrest of Dimitry Sklyarov it has become apparent that it is not >safe for non US software engineers to visit the United States. - Alan Cox >"To prevent unauthorized reading..." - Adobe eBook reader license >_______________________________________________ >tclug-list mailing list >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list