[R-390] QTH.NET and the sorbs conspiracy

[Richard Loken]

On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Bill Hawkins wrote:

> SORBS is an acronym for something. It is also the name of a group

I think ORBS stood for Open Relay Blocking Service.  There are very few 
open relays left, the spammers have to be a bit more direct in there 
actions these days.

> of highwaymen that have set out on the holy quest to rid the internet
> of spam. Highwaymen? You bet! If your ISP lets a spammer slip through
> then SORBS blacklists them until they have paid for every bit of spam

That is not all.  They used to blacklist ISP's if the ISP would not allow
SORBS to surf their address block looking for SMTP listeners to test.

They are first class A**H***s!

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