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- http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1950
Last Updated: 2006-12-18 18:16:43 UTC
* http://ordb.org/news/?id=38
2006-12-18 - "…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). DNS and the mailing lists will vanish today, December 18, 2006."
- http://www.computerworld.com/action/articl…rce=rss_topic85
December 21, 2006 - "…ORDB is essentially a victim of its own success – five years ago around 90 percent of spam was sent through open relays, and now the figure is less than one percent, due to blocking lists and to ISPs disallowing third-party relay…"
- http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1950
Last Updated: 2006-12-18 18:16:43 UTC
* http://ordb.org/news/?id=38
2006-12-18 - "…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). DNS and the mailing lists will vanish today, December 18, 2006."
- http://www.computerworld.com/action/articl…rce=rss_topic85
December 21, 2006 - "…ORDB is essentially a victim of its own success – five years ago around 90 percent of spam was sent through open relays, and now the figure is less than one percent, due to blocking lists and to ISPs disallowing third-party relay…"