Trilight Zone

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After five-and-a-half years of maintaining IP addresses of verified open SMTP relays, ORDB.org is calling it quits, citing irrelevance as the main reason.


In a goodbye notice, the volunteer anti-spam group said the general consensus within its team is that open relay RBLs are no longer the most effective way of blocking spam from entering into a network.

"We encourage system owners to remove ORDB checks from their mailers immediately and start investigating alternative methods of spam filtering," the group said, noting that the DNS and mailing lists will vanish today (December 18, 2006).

The entire Web site will disappear by December 31, 2006.

ORDB.org recommends a combination involving greylisting and content-based analysis (such as the dspam project, bmf or Spam Assassin).