Re: Administrative Overheads Arising from UCE

[Piet Beertema <]

    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