On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> They must've changed something, then.  I've had exim configured to add
> a MAPS-based warning header for quite a while and last week I noticed
> that all incoming mail was getting the headers
>
> X-RBL-Warning: (inputs.orbs.org) MAIL BLOCKED; See http://www.e-scrub.com/orbs/
> X-RBL-Warning: (spamsources.orbs.org) MAIL BLOCKED; See http://www.e-scrub.com/orbs/
>
> added.  The referenced URL states quite emphatically that continuing to
> use the ORBS service "_will_ result in rejection of up to 100% of all
> incoming E-mail, both spam and non-spam."

ORBS did things differently. The guys running the DNS servers got tired of
all the excess traffic, so they started responding to every DNS query with
a response to bounce the message. It's designed to annoy sysadmins enough
to stop pounding their DNS servers.  :)

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