From: D Hill (d.hillyournetplus.com)
Date: Tue Apr 01 2008 - 08:51:14 CDT

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On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 at 15:23 +0100, Jacqui.carenntlworld.com confabulated:

> Frog wrote:
>> mouss wrote:
>>
>>> For those who didn't see it, ordb now returns a positive result for every
>>> query. If you have
>>> reject_rbl_client relays.ordb.org
>>> you should disable it. Also check other software and hardware (appliances,
>>> ...) that may be using it. (Are Symantec and others inundated with support
>>> calls?).
>>>
>>> ordb was discontinued more than a year ago, so this action is
>>> understandable and there is nothing to complain about (of you course, you
>>> can still complain to yourself or to your vendor ;-p)
>>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I just noticed that the documentation on the Postfix site still refers to
>> relays.ordb.org which may cause some confusion if it isn't changed.
>>
>> The specific page where I saw it is http://www.postfix.org/uce.html
>
> It is a bit sad that a dead RBL has to go to the trouble of +ve
> listings for everyone just to stop people using it.

Yet it was posted on _SEVERAL_ lists the RBL was going to be shutting
down. It was even posted on this list by Victor:

http://groups.google.com/group/list.postfix.users/browse_thread/thread/4c09f2efc22001d7/82008dc42f4982f8?lnk=gst&q=ordb#82008dc42f4982f8

> Hmm, perhaps ATT/BT/yahoo's 'new' filter engine included ordb? :-)
> It would explain why people could not even email themselves!
>
> Jacqui
>

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