Re: Administrative Overheads Arising from UCE
- Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 18:20:17 +0100
I didn't check MAPS/RBL or ORBS mostly because I don't beleive in
such centralized monsters but also because I feel they would hardly
be up to date and people would not make use of them anyway - if it's
impossible for a university to stop Mail Relay by 10 lines of .cf
code, why should one expect them to add tons of such code to go ask
MAPS/RBL or ORBS and do so for each message???
I won't argue about "10 lines of .cf code", but I disagree
about the effectiveness, maintenance and use of MAPS and ORBS.
However, I've now spent some time with MAPS/RBL to look for spam hosts
and Mail Relays (some apologies to the folks that get exposed; if you
find yourself - or your friends - here go fix that Mail Relay).
Relay Name IP MAPS/RBL
pc91w0.WiSo.Uni-Augsburg.DE 137.250.20.91 Nope
137.250.20.91 blacklisted by ORBS
relay2.eunet.fr 192.134.192.149 Nope
192.134.192.149 blacklisted by ORBS
pf1.pf1.co.il 192.117.161.66 Nope
192.117.161.66 blacklisted by ORBS
ren.nic.in 164.100.10.18 Nope
164.100.10.18 blacklisted by ORBS
risc1.lrm.fi.cnr.it 149.139.5.3 Nope
149.139.5.3 blacklisted by ORBS
cleopatra.telnetwork.it 194.20.107.100 Nope
194.20.107.100 blacklisted by ORBS
gelso.unitn.it 193.205.200.200 Nope
193.205.200.200 blacklisted by ORBS
perth.otago.ac.nz 139.80.28.1 Nope
139.80.28.1 blacklisted by ORBS
res.lse.ac.uk 158.143.96.63 Nope
158.143.96.63 blacklisted by ORBS
pat.yale.ac.uk 194.83.84.8 Nope
194.83.84.8 blacklisted by ORBS
I suspect you're using an obsolete domain for ORBS;
make sure you use <reverse-addr>.relays.orbs.org.
I doubt MAPS/RBL or ORBS would have saved us.
See above...
Piet
