On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Dave Sherohman wrote: > 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." ORBS did things differently. The guys running the DNS servers got tired of all the excess traffic, so they started responding to every DNS query with a response to bounce the message. It's designed to annoy sysadmins enough to stop pounding their DNS servers. :) -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500