Fw: Administrivia: ORBS

["Sehmel, William C." <bsehmel () narrows com>]

Got this from bugtraq. 

Bill Sehmel
Peninsula School District
Information Services
Jr. Network Engineer.
253-857-8180
bsehmel () mail peninsiula wednet edu

-----Original Message-----
From: Elias Levy <aleph1 () SECURITYFOCUS COM>
To: BUGTRAQ () SECURITYFOCUS COM <BUGTRAQ () SECURITYFOCUS COM>
Date: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 1:48 PM
Subject: Administrivia: ORBS


> It seems the folks at ORBS (orbs.org) have decided that since our mail
> server its hosted of above.net, and above.net is filtering their
> probes since they claim they are a DoS, ORBS is adding any mail servers
> connected via above.net (including ours) to their spam relaying list,
> regardless that our servers have never perform relaying functions.
> I've emailed them but so far they have not responded. You may wish
> to email them (orbs () orbs org) and voice your dissatisfaction.
> Of curse if our email to you is being blocked by ORBS then you will
> probably not receive this message ;-)
>
> --
> Elias Levy
> Security Focus
> http://www.securityfocus.com/