Andreas Plesner Jacobsen <apj@daarligstil.dk> wrote in
news:slrngtc1ib.krr.apj@irq.hestdesign.com:
> On 2009-04-03, Henrik Laursen <nomail@dont-like-spam.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hvis du bruger en service, så gør alle den tjeneste at læs de
>>> announce-mails, servicen sender ud.
>>>
>>> Hvis du gjorde det, så ville du vide at ORDB har været slukket i flere
>>> år.
>>>
>> Tja det ville hjælpe HVIS man havde fået sådanne announce mails fra dem.
>> Men jeg har altså ikke hørt en dyt om at de skulle være lukket.
>
> Der blev sendt en mail til announce-listen i december 2006 med følgende
> ordlyd:
>
> ---
> We regret to inform you that ORDB.org, at the ripe age of five and a
> half, is shutting down. It's been a case of a long goodbye as very
> little work has gone into maintaining ORDB for a while.
>
> Our volunteer staff has been pre-occupied with other aspects of their
> lives. In addition, the general consensus within the team is that open
> relay RBLs are no longer the most effective way of preventing spam from
> entering your network as spammers have changed tactics in recent years,
> as have the anti-spam community.
>
> We encourage system owners to remove ORDB checks from their mailers
> immediately and start investigating alternative methods of spam
> filtering. We recommend a combination involving greylisting and
> content-based analysis (such as the dspam project, bmf or Spam
> Assassin).
> ---
>
> Men det forudsatte jo at du havde tilmeldt dig til listen.
>
Nå ja, der er jo stadig Spamhaus og Spamcop.
--
Henrik Laursen