Chris-Linfoot.net

We regret to inform you that ORDB.org, at the ripe age of five and a half, is shutting down. It's been a case of a long goodbye as very little work has gone into maintaining ORDB for a while. Our volunteer staff has been pre-occupied with other aspects of their lives. In addition, 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.

True enough, though not all tactical changes by the "anti-spam community" have been effective. However, open relay spam is indeed a thing of the past and so the demise of the ORDB is unsurprising, if still a little sad.

If you are using relays.ordb.org as a DNSBL in your gateway server or anti-spam appliance, now would be a good time to remove it.

(Thanks Ben.)

Category: DNSBLs
Technorati: ORDB

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