Re: Visited http://www.orbs.org/ recently?

[Jason Molenda <jason-swarelist@molenda.com>]

On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 04:26:30PM -0700, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >> If I'm reading the message at the ORBS web site correctly, then it
> >> looks like ORBS has temporarily shutdown its service.
> 
> Let's write the losers who killed ORBS and find out what their story
> is.  Disagreeing with ORBS is fine.  A preemptive nuclear strike is
> not.

Paul Vixie et al, according to the ORBS page.

I don't know...  I don't know Vixie at all, but I've always thought
of him as a non-moron, and the things that the ORBS page allege
seem moronic.  I wouldn't jump to any conclusions without any more
information.  I can't help but think that someone has hacked the
ORBS page and stuck it there as a joke or something.

(If nothing else, the idea that ORBS provides competition to MAPS,
and so Vixie et al are doing this to help their business makes no
sense.  They're two completely different approaches to RBL'ing,
and most businesses would not be interested in the ORBS approach
given the number of false positives it garners.)

J